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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



... Elam.[572] If in the month of Kislev,[573] an eclipse is observed That encircles (?) the sun and the moon disappears, Upon the observation of the eclipse, Then may the king be exalted. May the heart of the king, my lord, rejoice. From Khushi-ilu, the servant of the king, the eponym. ...
— The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria • Morris Jastrow


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