See eponym in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Auant que le Senat s’aſſemble pour donner les voix, celuy qui voudra propoſer quelque loy, l’eſcrira au lieu des Eponimes, afin que selon leur nõbre le peuple peuſt auoir des Nomothetes le tẽps de les pouuoir premierement examiner. Et quiconque demandera qu’vne nouuelle loy ſoit introduite, la mettra non ſeulement vne fois, mais tous les iours au lieu des Eponimes, iuſques à ce que le Senat s’aſſemble. Que l’Eponime eſliſe de tout le nombre des Atheniens cinq hommes, qui auront la charge de deffendre les loix.",
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"roman": "eponim",
"sense": "(linguistics, sometimes proscribed) word formed from a person’s name",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "епоним"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"sense": "(linguistics, sometimes proscribed) word formed from a person’s name",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "eponiem"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "(linguistics, sometimes proscribed) word formed from a person’s name",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "éponyme"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "(linguistics, sometimes proscribed) word formed from a person’s name",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Eponym"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "(linguistics, sometimes proscribed) word formed from a person’s name",
"word": "eponima"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "(linguistics, sometimes proscribed) word formed from a person’s name",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "eponimo"
},
{
"code": "la",
"english": "Contemporary Latin",
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"sense": "(linguistics, sometimes proscribed) word formed from a person’s name",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"translation": "Contemporary Latin",
"word": "epōnymum"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "(linguistics, sometimes proscribed) word formed from a person’s name",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "eponim"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "(linguistics, sometimes proscribed) word formed from a person’s name",
"tags": [
"Portugal",
"masculine"
],
"word": "epónimo"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "(linguistics, sometimes proscribed) word formed from a person’s name",
"tags": [
"Brazil",
"masculine"
],
"word": "epônimo"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "epónim",
"sense": "(linguistics, sometimes proscribed) word formed from a person’s name",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "эпо́ним"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "eponím",
"sense": "(linguistics, sometimes proscribed) word formed from a person’s name",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "эпони́м"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"lang_code": "sk",
"sense": "(linguistics, sometimes proscribed) word formed from a person’s name",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "eponymum"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "(linguistics, sometimes proscribed) word formed from a person’s name",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "epónimo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "(linguistics, sometimes proscribed) word formed from a person’s name",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "eponym"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"lang_code": "uk",
"roman": "epónim",
"sense": "(linguistics, sometimes proscribed) word formed from a person’s name",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "епо́нім"
}
],
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"Albert Einstein",
"Alois Alzheimer",
"Alzheimer's disease",
"Charles Boycott",
"Christopher Columbus",
"Columbia",
"Enrico Fermi",
"Euclid",
"Euclidean geometry",
"Fermi paradox",
"Hansard",
"Isaac Newton",
"John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich",
"Newtonian mechanics",
"Queen Victoria",
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