# Filipino

Pronunciation: US say "fi-li-PEE-noh" /fɪlɪˈpinoʊ/; UK say "fil-i-PEE-noh" /ˌfɪlɪˈpiːnəʊ/

## Noun

1. A citizen or resident of the Philippines, or a person of Philippine descent.
   - Simple: Someone who lives in or comes from the Philippines, or whose family does.
   - _As a Filipino raised in California, she visits her relatives in Cebu each summer._
   - _Overseas Filipinos remit billions of dollars to the country every year._
4. A male citizen or inhabitant of the Philippines.
   - Simple: A man or boy who lives in or comes from the Philippines.
   - _The bride was a Filipina from Manila, and the groom a Filipino from Davao._
   - _He became the first Filipino to win the men's title at the tournament._

## Adjective

2. Belonging to, coming from, or connected with the Philippines and the peoples, languages, and cultures of the islands.
   - Simple: Connected with the Philippines, its people, languages, or cultures.
   - _She grew up speaking several Filipino languages at home._
   - _The museum's new wing showcases Filipino weaving traditions from across the islands._
5. Relating to Tagalog, the language on which the national language of the Philippines is based.
   - Simple: Relating to Tagalog, the language that the national language of the Philippines is based on.
   - _The textbook explains Filipino verb prefixes inherited directly from Tagalog._
   - _Her thesis traces how Filipino word order keeps the Tagalog habit of putting the verb first._

## Proper noun

3. A language based on Tagalog that serves as the national language of the Philippines.
   - Simple: The main language spoken across the Philippines, built mostly from Tagalog.
   - _Street signs in the capital appear in both Filipino and English._
   - _She translated the novel into Filipino for readers back home._

## Noun

6. A Philippine-born man of pure or mostly Spanish descent. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: In the past, a man born in the Philippines whose family was fully or mostly Spanish.

## Origin

From Spanish 'filipino', formed from Felipe plus the suffix '-ino', a demonym for 'las Islas Filipinas' (the Philippine Islands), which were named after King Philip II of Spain. In the Spanish Colonial Era the term first referred only to a male Philippine-born person of pure or majority Spanish descent, before it was applied as a nationality for every citizen of the Philippines from the First Philippine Republic.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/filipino (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).