[ep-uh-nim] 
| 1. | a person, real or imaginary, from whom something, as a tribe, nation, or place, takes or is said to take its name: Brut, the supposed grandson of Aeneas, is the eponym of the Britons. |
| 2. | a word based on or derived from a person's name. |
| 3. | any ancient official whose name was used to designate his year of office. |
| ep·o·nym (ěp'ə-nĭm') n.
[French éponyme, from Greek epōnumos, named after : epi-, epi- + onoma, onuma, name; see n  -men- in Indo-European roots.]ep'o·nym'ic adj. |
eponym ep·o·nym (ěp'ə-nĭm')
n.
A name of a drug, structure, or disease based on or derived from the name of a person.
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