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Eponyme   Listen
noun
Eponyme, Eponym  n.  
1.
The hypothetical individual who is assumed as the person from whom any race, city, etc., took its name; as, Hellen is an eponym of the Hellenes.
2.
A name, as of a people, country, and the like, derived from that of an individual.





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"Eponyme" Quotes from Famous Books



... their progenitor. The man who first emancipated sculpture from servile bondage, and opened a way for the attainment of true beauty, would by the Greeks have been honoured with a special cultas as the Hero Eponym of art. It remains for us after our own fashion to pay ...
— Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 - The Fine Arts • John Addington Symonds


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