latinx

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See also: Latinx

Spanish

Alternative forms

Etymology

The gender-neutral suffix -x replaces the gendered Spanish suffixes -a and -o.

Pronunciation

Noun

latinx gender-neutral (plural latinxs, feminine latina, feminine plural latinas, masculine latino, masculine plural latinos)

  1. (neologism, gender-neutral, uncommon) gender-neutral form of latino or latina
    • 2016 August, Vicente Guzman-Grozco, “Kat Fajardo: Latinxs Ilustradxs”, in EL Hispanic News:
    • 2015 December 12-13, Lanzate, page 11:
      poblaciones latinxs y chicanxs
      towns (or populations) of Latinxs and Chicanxs.
    • 2021, Diego Pascual y Cabo, Julio Torres, Aproximaciones al estudio del español como lengua de herencia, Routledge, →ISBN, page 116:
      En cuanto al español de lxs latinxs norteamericanxs, Otheguy y Stern (2011) enfatizan el contexto bilingüe de adquisición que promueve unas prácticas lingüísticas cualitativamente diferentes a las de contextos monolingües.
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    • 2021, Victoria Volkova, Victoria. Mi camino hacia el amor propio, Alfaguara Juvenil, →ISBN, page 159:
      Lxs latinxs somos muy cálidxs, sonrientes, ruidosxs, y a veces eso contrasta con la seriedad de la gente de otros lugares.
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    Synonym: latine

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