Eponym - English meaning
Eponym – definitions in English dictionary
nounA person after whom a discovery, invention, place, etc., is named or thought to be named.
Usage examples:
The eponyms are the french marquis de sade and the austrian leopold von sacher-masoch.
nounThe name of an object or activity that is also the name of the person who first produced the object or did the activity
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Word origin
mid 19th century: from Greek epōnumos ‘given as a name, giving one's name to someone or something’, from epi ‘upon’ + onoma ‘name’.
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