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EponymicEponymic Ep`o*nym"ic, a.
Same as Eponymous.
Tablets . . . which bear eponymic dates. --I. Taylor
(The
Alphabet). Eponymist
Eponymist E*pon"y*mist, n.
One from whom a race, tribe, city, or the like, took its
name; an eponym.
Eponymy
Eponymy E*pon"y*my, n. [Gr. ? a surname given after some
person or thing.]
The derivation of the name of a race, tribe, etc., from that
of a fabulous hero, progenitor, etc.
Meaning of Eponym from wikipedia
- An
eponym is a person, a place, or a
thing after which or for
which someone or
something is, or is
believed to be, named.
Adjectives derived from the word...
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Medical eponyms are
terms used in
medicine which are
named after people (and
occasionally places or things). In 1975, the
Canadian National Institutes...
- An
eponym is a
person (real or fictitious) from whom
something is said to take its name. The word is back-formed from "eponymous", from the Gr**** "eponymos"...
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Sisak (Armenian: Սիսակ) was the
legendary ancestor of the
Armenian princely house of Syuni, also
called Siunids,
Syunid and Syuni. The
Armenian historian...
- The
Eponym Group (Persian: گروه همنام; Hamnam) was an
electoral list for the 1980
Iranian legislative election claiming "it
would choose its candidates...
- The ****yrian
Eponym Chronicles represent an
important source for the
chronology of the
Ancient Near East. They are
chronicles or annals,
which list at...
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about the
eponyms of species.
Watkins is co-author of the
books Whose Bird?: Men and
Women Commemorated in the
Common Names of Birds, The
Eponym Dictionary...
- Aviator's
fracture Bankart's
fracture Barton's
fracture Bennett's
fracture Boxer's
fracture Bumper fracture Burst fracture Bosworth fracture Chance fracture...
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These are
lists of
places by
eponym, i.e.
lists grouping places named after the same person. Abu
Bakar of
Johor Benjamin Franklin C. N.
Annadurai Charles...
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eponym dating system was a
calendar system for ****yria, for a
period of over one
thousand years.
Every year was ****ociated with the name, an
eponym,...
