eponym|eponyms in English

noun

[ep·o·nym || 'epəʊnɪm]

person whose name is used as the name of a place or thing; medical name of a disease derived from a person's name; ancient official whose name was used to indicate the year he was in office

Use "eponym|eponyms" in a sentence

1. Aetolus, eponym of the Aetolians

2. He was the co-eponym of the Sturm–Liouville theory with Joseph Liouville.

3. Aetolus 2 is the eponym of Aetolia, the region in mainland Greece north of the Gulf of Patrae

4. You of course know that an eponym is a word that started out as someone's name.

5. I was being interviewed recently and talking about a certain eponym that had morphed after it was first coined.

6. Although he really did not invent the guillotine, and in fact opposed the death penalty, his name became an eponym for it.

7. 'Barmecide' is a fictional eponym from the Arabian Nights which refers to a meal that looks good but doesn't come up to expectations.

8. There are several anatomical eponyms attributed to Antoine Ferrein, including: "Ferrein's canal": (rivus lacrimalis); A space between the eyelids when closed and the eyeball through which tears flow to the lacrimal punctum.

9. Aristarchian) arithmancy – divination by numbers [dictionary at mancy lists 54 form of divination] armalcolite – eponym: a mineral not of earth, found on the moon, named for astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins

10. More About “Bowdlerize” The word “Bowdlerize” is an eponym, named after Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), a British physician known for editing (or bowdlerizing) Shakespeare’s works into The Family Shakspeare (sic) (1807), a ten-volume set of Shakespeare’s works