Latinx

or la·ti·nx

[ luh-tee-neks, la‐, lat-n-eks ]

adjective

1. of or relating to people of Latin American origin or descent, especially those living in the United States (used in place of the masculine form Latino, the feminine form Latina, or the gender-binary form Latin@ ):

   Community members celebrated at the Latinx Pride Parade.

noun

, plural La·ti·nxs [l, uh, -, tee, -nek-siz, la‐, lat, -n-ek-siz], (especially collectively) La·ti·nx.

1. a person of Latin American origin or descent, especially one living in the United States (used in place of the masculine form Latino , the feminine form Latina , or the gender-binary form Latin@ ):

   As a first-generation Latinx, I struggled to reconcile my cultural and gender identities.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Latinx¹

First recorded in 2000–05; Latin(a) ( def ) or Latin(o) ( def ) + x ³( def ) in the sense “unknown quantity or variable”; Latin@ ( def )

Example Sentences

“But it’s also true that I don’t ... know any Mexican Americans or Latinos that asked us to use significant political capital to make ‘Latinx’ happen.

From Los Angeles Times

“I gave the police more money than they wanted! I gave them planes and tanks! They didn’t talk about pronouns. They didn’t say ‘Latinx.’

From Salon

He said radicals within the party had “managed to alienate historic numbers of Latinos, Blacks, Asians, and Jews from the Democratic Party with absurdities like ‘Defund the Police’ or ‘From the River to the Sea’ or ‘Latinx’”.

From BBC

Yes, Kamala Harris is a woman who registers as white-collar; a lot of other female professionals running as Democrats did better than she did, and thanks to the polls, we can be all but certain that if Scranton Joe had run in her stead, he would have done much, much worse than Harris, even if he’d made fun of the phrase Latinx or complained about “biological males” playing girls’ high school basketball.

From Slate

Then there was “Latinx,” an ungendered term pushed by progressives and used in the past by Harris and Biden.

From Los Angeles Times