The Greeks and Romans tended to credit nearly every location and ethnicity to a legendary eponym, Hellas to Hellen, Rome to Romulus, Egypt to Aegyptus, etc.
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Eponym
/ˈɛpənɪm/
Synonyms for "eponym" (131 found)
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33 translations across 27 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἐπωνυμία noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
Belarusian
1 entries- эпані́м noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
Bengali
1 entries- ব্যক্তির নামে নামাঙ্কিত noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
Bulgarian
1 entries- епоним noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
Catalan
1 entries- epònim noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 名祖 noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
Czech
1 entries- eponym noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
Dutch
2 entries- eponiem noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
- naamgever noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
Finnish
1 entries- eponyymi noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
French
1 entries- éponyme noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
German
2 entries- Eponym noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
- Namensgeber noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
Hungarian
1 entries- névadó noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
Irish
1 entries- eapainm noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
Italian
1 entries- eponimo noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
Japanese
2 entries- エポニム noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
- 名祖 noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
Korean
1 entries- 명조 noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
Latin
1 entries- eponymus noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
Malay
1 entries- eponim noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
Polish
1 entries- eponim noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
Portuguese
2 entries- epónimo noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
- epônimo noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
Russian
2 entries- эпо́ним noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
- эпони́м noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
Slovak
1 entries- eponym noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
Spanish
1 entries- epónimo noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
Swedish
1 entries- eponym noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
Telugu
1 entries- నామకారకుడు noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
Turkish
2 entries- ad veren noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
- eponim noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
Ukrainian
1 entries- епо́нім noun (person's name that has given rise to the name of something)
Sample sentences
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Similar to the Greek eponymous archons and Roman consuls, the names of the annually appointed Assyrian limus were used for their years in office and they are accordingly also known as eponyms.
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Alexandria is an eponym, taken from its founder Alexander the Great.
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[Mesmer] lives on today as the root of the eponym mesmerize.
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