Eponym
There are so many of these words deriving from certain people and places one would think it takes up half the english language.Examples.
Like calling someone a casanova – a man who preys on women or “promiscuous man,” actually comes from Giacomo Jacopo Girolamo Casanova de Seignalt (1725-98), an Italian adventurer who wrote a memoir in which he bragged about his lady conquests.
Chauvinism – The belief in the superiority of one’s own gender, group, or kind, comes from Nicholas Chauvin, soldier in Napoleon’s Army.
C-section (short for Caesarian Section) – medical procedure when a child is delivered by being cut from the mother’s womb. Word has it that Julius Caesar was so born.
Just some food for thought.
Comments (9)
Hi Luke.
Molly, Jigs.
He's a great sport about it, and has a laugh with everyone else.
The manager decided they would use the code word 'Eddie' who happened to be her son's name.
From then on, when someone asked, over the loudspeaker they would say "Eddie it"
The English language consists of a large amount of eponyms. Too many for my small brain. An eponym is a person or a thing, whether real or fictional, after which a specific discovery, place or era is named.
Let it be.
I'll rather be watching another episode of Outlander in my spare time.