ep·o·nym

(ĕp′ə-nĭm′)

1. A word or name derived from a proper noun. The words atlas, bowdlerize, denim, and Turing machine are eponyms.

2. One whose name is or is thought to be the source of the name of something: Alexander Garden is the eponym of the gardenia.

[French éponyme, from Greek epōnumos, named after : epi-, epi- + onoma, onuma, name; see nō̆-men- in Indo-European roots.]

ep′o·nym′ic adj.

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eponymic - being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym

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Covered in this review are eponymic signs of inspection of the precordium seen in patients with pericarditis.

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His eponymic concert, Emmy Rhymes Live in Concert, holds today at the Oriental hotels, Lagos.

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They distinguished four macro-strategies: constructive, perpetuation and justification, dismantling or destructive strategies and sub-strategies such as the presupposing of intra-national sameness where there was the use of the national we and the eponymic adverbial Austrian.

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During the turnover ceremony, he said he wants all students to walk with comfort when going to school and be proud of the eponymic shoes he gave them.

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The eponymic symptoms which represent oculomotor paresis with the paramedian midbrain lesion have been named Claude syndrome [2] and Benedict syndrome [3], and these definitions are also complex.

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At one point, the eponymic hero, searching the world for the great beauty Farrokh-Laqa - who may be nothing but a fantasy - feels as if his life has become a constant repetition of exactly the same events and images, echoing the Pythagorean theory of "eternal recurrence," which states that whatever has already happened is going to happen again and again.

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In La escualida familia, the eponymic characters barely survive.

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In the Greek literature Aeschylus is the one who uses the eponymic metaphor, especially in the play "The Seven Ones against Thebe", but also in "The Praying Women".

Linguistic and anthropological-cultural perspectives on eponimy: Ferdinand de Saussure and the theory of hypograms