An eponym is a person or thing, whether real or fictitious, after which a particular place, tribe, era, discovery, or other item is named or thought to be named.

Hyrieus was the eponym of Hyria in Boeotia, where he dwelt and where Orion ( see below ) was born ; some sources though place him either in Thrace or on Chios.

Saint Vitus is considered to be the patron saint of dancers, with the eponym given as homage to the manic dancing that historically took place in front of his statue during the feast of Saint Vitus in Germanic and Latvian cultures.

This etiological eponym served to account for the Greek ethnic name Lydoi ( Λυδοί ).

Maecenas is most famous for his support of young poets, hence his name has become the eponym for a " patron of arts ".

His name is the eponym of chauvinism, a term for excessive nationalistic fervor.

* In intellectual property law an eponym can refer to a genericized trademark or brand name, a form of metonymy.

In the 6th century BC, Hecataeus of Miletus affirms that Phoenicia was formerly called χνα, a name that Philo of Byblos subsequently adopted into his mythology as his eponym for the Phoenicians: " Khna who was afterwards called Phoinix ".

Biblical scholars regard this as an eponym rather than an individual, and it is thought possible that the name is a corruption of Halusah ; with the identification of Ziklag as Haluza, this suggests that Ziklag was the original base from which the Philistines captured the remainder of their territory.

As a tribute to him, she decided to build him a tomb so famous that Mausolus's name is now the eponym for all stately tombs, in the word mausoleum.

Amyrus, eponym of a Thessalian city, is given by Stephanus of Byzantium as " one of the Argonauts "; he is otherwise said to have been a son of Poseidon and to have given his name to the river Amyrus.

Pausanias ( 2. 15. 3 ) mentions his daughter Nemea, eponym for the region of the same name ( possibly the mother of Archemorus in Aeschylus ' lost play Nemea ).

The third centre of power was the eponym ( limmum ), who gave the year his name, similarly to the archons and consuls of Classical Antiquity.

Moderns speculate on whether this Geat is any eponym of the people known as Geats, or whether it may be the name of a god, or whether it is both.

This was probably done because like its eponym, Liverpool also produced salt, and village leaders wanted to capitalize on the name of another famous salt-producing region.

In the legend, he is the otherworldly " brother " of Merowech, whose name is the eponym of the Merovingians.

The name is possibly an eponym for the god Freyr.

A generic trademark, also known as a genericized trademark or proprietary eponym, is a trademark or brand name that has become the generic name for, or synonymous with, a general class of product or service, against the usual intentions of the trademark's holder.

Some examples of the latter type from the vocabulary of physicians include the names Luer-Lok ( Luer lock ) and Port-a-Cath ( portacath ), which have genericized mind share ( among physicians ) because ( 1 ) the users may not realize that the term is a brand name rather than a medical eponym or generic-etymology term, and ( 2 ) no alternate generic name for the idea readily comes to mind.

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

Nabal ( נבל ) may be a deliberate satirical corruption of the name Nadab ( נדב ); if this is an eponym then it probably referred originally to Jehonadab ( which is just a theophory of nadab ), and thus represent the Rechabites.

Its common name is an eponym, referring to Dr. Max Wilms, the German surgeon ( 1867 – 1918 ) who first described this kind of tumor.

When the target name merely is derived from the source name without an additional " sake " connection, such usage more accurately may be called an eponym rather than a namesake.

The Darwinian ear eponym derives from Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 ), the British biologist and evolutionary theoretician.

The eponym derives from Hermann A. Wildermuth ( 1852 – 1907 ), the German neurologist who identified the defect.

However, Argus is not to be confused with the other Argus, son of Arestor or Polybus, constructor and eponym of the ship Argo and member of the crew from the beginning.

To make up the twelve Diodorus ' list also adds Peirene ( the famous spring in Corinth ), Cleone ( possible eponym of a small city of Cleonae on the road from Corinth to Argos according to Pausanias ), Ornia ( otherwise totally unknown ), and Asopis.

Aside from the Inachians of whom he was simply the back-formed eponym, his other children include Mycene, the spirit of Mycenae, the spring nymph Amymone, Messeis, Hyperia, and possibly Teledice.

* Clymenus, son of either Presbon or Orchomenus ( in the latter case, brother of Aspledon and Amphidocus ) and a King of Orchomenus in Boeotia, which he inherited from its eponym Orchomenus-either as his son, or ( in the version that makes him a son of Presbon ) because Orchomenus left the kingdom to him, having no children of his own.

The peoples known as the Curetes and the Leleges originally inhabited the country, but at an early period Greeks from Elis, led by the mythical eponym Aetolus, set up colonies.

* George H. Pendleton ( 1825 – 1889 ), American politician, senator from Ohio, eponym of the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act

" The event lasts over two months, starting from the twelfth of the seventh month to the fifteenth of the ninth month by the Chinese lunar calendar, and spans for a total of 63 days, giving rise to its eponym as " the world ’ s longest festival ".

Yet Landini used the formula consistently throughout his music, so the eponym — which dates from after the medieval era — is appropriate.

He was a sponsor and eponym of the Wilmot Proviso which aimed to ban slavery in land gained from Mexico in the Mexican-American War of 1846 – 1848.

Angul is the eponym of the region of Angul and from his people eventually came the English who gave their name to England.

In Roman times Lympne was known as " Portus Lemanis ", from which ( or from the British eponym of which ) the English name is derived.

Duly, the word derrick became an eponym for the frame from which the hangman's noose was supported and through that usage ( by analogy ) to modern day cranes.

The word is an eponym, named after the Biblical prophet Jeremiah, and comes from Biblical works attributed to him, the Book of Jeremiah and the Book of Lamentations.

Because of the existence of full eponym lists from his reign down to the middle of the reign of Ashurbanipal in the 7th century BC, year one of his reign in 911 BC is perhaps the first event in ancient Near Eastern history which can be dated to an exact year, although the Assyrian King List is generally considered to be quite accurate for several centuries before Adad-nirari's reign, and scholars generally agree on a single set of dates back to Ashur-resh-ishi I in the late 12th century BC.

The term is an eponym, named after famous inventor Thomas Edison, formed in the same way the term " Robinsonade " was formed from Robinson Crusoe.

Although many scholars therefore view Ham as an eponym used to represent Egypt in the Table of Nations, a number of Christians throughout history, including Origen and the Cave of Treasures, have argued for the alternate proposition that Ham represents all black people, his name symbolising their dark skin colour ; pro-slavery advocates, from Eutychius of Alexandria and John Philoponus, to American pro-slavery apologists, have therefore occasionally interpreted the narrative as a condemnation of all black people to slavery.

The Society was founded in 1820 by Joseph Henry Lumpkin, later to become the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia and eponym for the University of Georgia Lumpkin School of Law, and by William Crabbe, Edwin Mason, and Henry Mason, who formed the society after splitting from the Demosthenian Literary Society.