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Appellation origin
Answer for the clue "Appellation origin ", 6 letters:
eponym
Alternative clues for the word eponym
- Rob Roy or Shirley Temple
- 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
- Item name derived from a person
- Louis Braille or Louis Chevrolet
- Marcel Bich, for Bic
- Sandwich or leotard, e.g
- Tesla or Volta, e.g
- Person for whom a nation or city is named
- Thursday from Thor e.g
Word definitions for eponym in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The name of a real or fictitious person whose name has, or is thought to have, given rise to the name of a particular item. 2 A word formed from a real or fictive person’s name.
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.