Philippine

How to spell philippine

10 letters · 3 syllables

The most common mistake is phillipine. The letters people get wrong are highlighted.

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What people typed instead

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How to pronounce philippine

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does philippine mean?

1. adjectiveOf or relating to the Philippines, its people, or its culture.

Philippine in a sentence

• The restaurant serves traditional philippine dishes such as adobo and lumpia.

• She studied the philippine economy for her postgraduate thesis.

Where does philippine come from?

Language of origin: Greek

This word comes ultimately from the Greek personal name Philippos, which literally meant 'lover of horses', combining philos 'loving' with hippos 'horse'. That name passed through Latin as Philippus and became the royal name Philip across Europe. The adjective specifically honours King Philip II of Spain, after whom Spanish explorers named the archipelago Las Islas Filipinas in the sixteenth century. English absorbed the form 'Philippine' from this Spanish naming, adding the familiar adjective ending -ine that signals 'relating to', as in 'alpine' or 'marine'. The chief spelling trap lives in the consonants: there is a single l followed by a doubled p, mirroring the original name Philip and its Greek hippos root, so remembering 'horse' (hippos, double p) helps fix the spelling.

How the word is built

• Philipp- (from the personal name Philip, ultimately Greek Philippos: lover of horses)
• -ine (adjective suffix meaning 'relating to')