[KLUG Advocacy] Vocab Niggle (eponymous)

[Peter Buxton]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:33:50AM -0400, Adam Williams wrote:

> Is this actually "eponymous";  I was told "eponymous" meant named
> after the author, creator, founder, etc...  Is it correct to use it in
> this general sense (named after topic) as well?

epi, upon - nymos, a name. Generally, a given name. William Penn is the
eponym of Pennsylvania. I've never seen a topic as an eponym.

Aside from the R.E.M. _Eponymous_ album, that is. :)

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