Eponym
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An Eponym is a new common word that is based on a proper name.
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2017
- (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eponym Retrieved:2017-7-16.
- An eponym is a person, place, or thing for whom or for which something is named, or believed to be named.[1] For example, Elizabeth I of England is the eponym of the Elizabethan era.
The adjectives derived from eponym, which include eponymous and eponymic, [2] similarly refer to being the person or thing after whom something is named, as "the eponymous founder of the Ford Motor Company" refers to Henry Ford.[3] [4] Recent usage, especially in the recorded-music industry, also allows eponymous to mean "named after its central character or creator".
- An eponym is a person, place, or thing for whom or for which something is named, or believed to be named.[1] For example, Elizabeth I of England is the eponym of the Elizabethan era.
- ↑ "eponym". Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com LLC. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
- ↑ "eponym". Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
- ↑ "eponymous". Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com LLC. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
- ↑ "eponymous". Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
2005
- (ANSI Z39.19, 2005) ⇒ ANSI. (2005). “ANSI/NISO Z39.19 - Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies." ANSI.
- QUOTE: eponym- A term incorporating the name of a real or mythical person, generally the discoverer of a phenomenon or inventor of an object, e.g., Herculean labor, Parkinson’s disease, pasteurization.