filipino

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: Fil=i=pi=no

CIDE DICTIONARY

filipino, adj. 

•  of or relating to the Philippines or its people or customs.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  of or relating to the language of the Philippines.  [WordNet 1.5]

filipino, n. [Sp.].

•  A native or inhabitant of the Philippine Islands, specif. one of Spanish descent or of mixed blood.

  "Then there are Filipinos, -- “children of the country,” they are called, -- who are supposed to be pure-blooded descendants of Spanish settlers. But there are few of them without some touch of Chinese or native blood."  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  the official language of the Philippines, based on Tagalog. It draws its lexicon from other Philippine languages.  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

filipino, n. & adj.
--n. (pl. -os; fem. Filipina) a native or national of the Philippines, a group of islands in the SW Pacific.
--adj. of or relating to the Philippines or the Filipinos.

Etymology

Sp., = Philippine