eponymous (eponimus)

[ Will Summer the name of Henry VIII.'s court-fool, whose celebrity probably made him eponymous of the members of his profe ion in general. A. W. Ward , Eng. Dram. Lit., I. 144. Lydus and Asies are eponymous heroes; Meles is an ideal founder of the capital. G. Rawlinson, Origin of Nations, i. 74. eponymy (e-pon'i-mi), n.; pl. eponymies (-miz). [ The earliest examples of the barred form of the letter shin are found on three tablets dated from the eponymies of Silim-a ur and Sin-sar-uzur (650-640 в. с.). Isaac Taylor , The Alphabet, I. 237. epoöphoron (ep-o-of'ō-ron), n.; pl. epoöphora (-ra). [NL., ἐπί , upon, + φοφόρος , laying eggs: see oophorous .] Same as parovarium . epopee (ep-o-pē'), n. [ epopæia , ποιεῖν , make.] 1. An epic poem. The Kalevala, or heroic epopee of the Finns. Encyc . Brit ., V. 306. 2. The history, action, or fable which makes or is suitable for the subject of an epic. The stories were an endle epopee of suffering. G. Kennan, The Century, XXXV. 760. named, named after a person or thing, giving one's name to (as a noun, in pl., ἐπώνυμοι, sc. ἥρωες, eponymous heroes, legendary or real founders of tribes or cities, as those after whom the Attic phylsæ had their names), The famous A yrian Eponym Canon, which gives an unbroken series of the officers after whom each year was named for about two hundred and sixty-five years, and also notes the acce ion of each succe ive A yrian king during that time. Bibliotheca Sacra , XLV. 53. 2. A name of a mythical or historical personage from whom the name of a country or people has come or is supposed to have come: thus, Italus, Romulus, Brutus, Heber, the names of imaginary persons invented to account for Italy, Rome, Britain, Hebrew, are mythical eponyms; Bolivar is the historical eponym of Bolivia. In short, wherever there was a clan there was an Eponym, or founder, whether real or legendary, of that clan. W. E. Hearn , Aryan Household, p. 145. 3. A name of something, as a part or organ of the body, derived from a person: thus, circle of Will is, fi ure of Sylvius, aqueduct of Fallopius, are eponyms. [Rare.] The very awkward dionymic еропут , Circulus Will is i. Wilder, Trans. Amer. Neurol. A oc. (1885), p. 349. eponymal (e-pon'i-mal), a. [ eponym + -al .] 1. Of or pertaining to an eponymos.-2. Same as eponymic . eponymic (ep-ō-nim'ik), a . [ νυμος , given as a name: see eponym .] 1. Relat- ing or pertaining to an eponym: as, an epo- nymic name or legend. Eponymic myths, which account for the parentage of a tribe by turning its name into the name of an imaginary ancestor. E. B. Tylor, Prim. Culture, I. 7. 2. Name-giving, mythically or historically; from whom the name of a country, people, or period is derived: as, Hellen was the eponymic ancestor of the Hellenes or Greeks.