Etymograph

English

Filipinx

Filipinx comes from Spanish Filipinas ‘Philippines’, and goes back to Ancient Greek Φίλιππος ‘fond of horses’.

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEΦίλιππος‘fond of horses’
  2. Spanishc. 1500–presentFelipe‘Philip’
  3. Spanish, derivedc. 1500–presentEspaña‘Philip II of Spain’
  4. Spanish, derivedc. 1500–presentFilipinas‘Philippines’
  5. Spanish, derivedc. 1500–presentfilipina
  6. Englishearliest quotation 2017Filipinx

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEΦίλιππος‘fond of horses’
  2. Spanishc. 1500–presentFelipe‘Philip’
  3. Spanish, derivedc. 1500–presentEspaña‘Philip II of Spain’
  4. Spanish, derivedc. 1500–presentFilipinas‘Philippines’
  5. Spanish, derivedc. 1500–presentfilipina
  6. Englishearliest quotation 2017Filipinx

Earliest quotation: 2017, Robert Diaz, Marissa Largo: “I didn't want people knowing I was Filipinx, or…”

The story

The gender-neutral suffix -x replaces the gendered suffixes -a and -o of Filipina and Filipino, which are from Spanish filipina and Spanish filipino, both from Spanish Filipinas (‘Philippines’), from Felipe II de España (‘Philip II of Spain’), from Felipe (‘Philip’).

Every English word from Ancient Greek Φίλιππος

Today it means

noun A Filipina or Filipino (of any gender).

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Ancient Greek Φίλιππος / Filipinx

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