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Word derived from a name
Answer for the clue "Word derived from a name ", 6 letters:
eponym
Alternative clues for the word eponym
- Louis Braille or Louis Chevrolet
- Baron De La Warr or William Penn
- Jacuzzi, for example
- Columbus, to Colombia, e.g.
- George Ferris, for the Ferris wheel
- Word derived from a person's name
- Extremely naughty poem about Don Juan, perhaps
- Word derived from someone's name
- Gabriel Fahrenheit or Anders Celsius
- Penn, to Pennsylvania
Usage examples of eponym.
Billy Barf, whose acquaintance with anything Italian was limited to the deuteragonist of Donkey Kong and a few canned-pasta commercials, insisted on speaking with his imperfect idea of an ethnic accent until Isaiah Two Four, detecting not only its inauthenticity but also its potential for insult, drew the young band eponym aside for a word or two, though Ralph Jr.
The suggestion has been made that the name Cain is the eponym of the Kenites, and although this clan has a good name almost everywhere in the Old Testament, yet in Num.
Eponyms abound in medicine like the tetralogy of Fallot, Cogan's disease, the Tolpin syndrome, or Depperman's degeneration.