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Name of a thing derived from a person
Answer for the clue "Name of a thing derived from a person ", 6 letters:
eponym
Alternative clues for the word eponym
- A name derived from the name of person (real or imaginary) as the name of Alexandria is derived from the name of its founder Alexander the Great
- Karl Benz or Henry Ford
- Source for many units of physics
- Item name derived from a person
- Romulus, vis-à-vis Rome
- Alison Bechdel, for the Bechdel test
- Marcel Bich, for Bic
- Person from whom something is named
Word definitions for eponym in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
one whose name becomes that of a place, a people, an era, an institution, etc., 1833, from Greek eponymos "given as a name, giving one's name to something," as a plural noun (short for eponymoi heroes ) denoting founders (legendary or real) of tribes, cities, ...
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.