Definition of Eponymy. Meaning of Eponymy. Synonyms of Eponymy

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Definition of Eponymy

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 Eponymy from wikipedia

- ruler or other influential figure: One of the first recorded cases of eponymy occurred in the second millennium BC, when the ****yrians named each year...
- Stigler's law of eponymy, proposed by University of Chicago statistics professor Stephen Stigler in his 1980 publication "Stigler's law of eponymy", states that...
- Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member...
- Madhav Dhananjaya Gadgil (born 24 May 1942) is an Indian ecologist, academic, writer, columnist and the founder of the Centre for Ecological Sciences,...
- the economist George Stigler. Stigler is also known for Stigler's law of eponymy which states that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer...
- The Biblical term Moloch has traditionally been understood as a Canaanite god to whom child sacrifice was offered. In post-classical rabbinical tradition...
- "Three Billy Goats Gruff" (Norwegian: De tre bukkene Bruse) is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their Norske...
- Thor (from Old Norse: Þórr) is a prominent god in Germanic paganism. In Norse mythology, he is a hammer-wielding god ****ociated with lightning, thunder...
- Reynolds who po****rized its use in 1883 (an example of Stigler's law of eponymy). The Reynolds number is the ratio of inertial forces to viscous forces...
- In Gr**** mythology, Elara /ˈɛlərə/, Elare or Alera (Ancient Gr****: Ἐλάρα, Ἐλάραη or Ἀλέρα), also called Larissa, was a mortal princess, the daughter of...