Filipino

Meaning

1. A citizen or local inhabitant of the Philippines, or descendant of such.
2. Of or pertaining to the Philippines or its peoples, languages, and cultures.
3. A male Philippine-born person of pure or majority Spanish descent.
4. Of or pertaining to Tagalog, the basis of the national language of the Philippines.
5. The national language of the Philippines, based on Tagalog.
6. Specifically the male equivalent of Filipina.

Etymology / origin

From Spanish filipino m, from Felipe + -ino, demonym to Spanish las Islas Filipinas (“The Philippine Islands (P.I.); The Philippines”), after Spanish El Rey Felipe II de España (“King Philip II of Spain”). The Spanish term formerly only referred to a male Philippine-born person of pure or majority Spanish descent, synonym to Spanish insular (“islander”) (plural insulares) in the Spanish Colonial Era of the Philippines, before it was applied as a nationality for every citizen of the Philippines from the First Philippine Republic during the Philippine Revolution.

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