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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
- Ohm or joule, e.g
- The verb Tebow, for one
- Columbus, to Colombia, e.g.
- Curie, Tesla or Fermi
- Jacuzzi, for example
- Baron De La Warr or William Penn
- Word derived from someone's name
- General Anthony Wayne, to Waynesboro
- 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
- Thursday from Thor e.g
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.