List of eponyms (A–K)

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An eponym is a person (real or fictitious) from whom something is said to take its name. The word is back-formed from "eponymous", from the Greek "eponymos" meaning "giving name".

Here is a list of eponyms:

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  2. ^ "Adonis".
  3. ^ Bo Beolens; Michael Watkins; Michael Grayson (6 September 2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. JHU Press. pp. 22–. ISBN 978-1-4214-0227-7.
  4. ^ Daffa, Ali Abdullah al- (1977). The Muslim contribution to mathematics. London: Croom Helm. ISBN 978-0-85664-464-1.
  5. ^ "ammehoela (herkomst) | Genootschap Onze Taal". Onze Taal. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ "Ammonia". h2g2 Eponyms. BBC.CO.UK. 11 January 2003. Archived from the original on 2 November 2007. Retrieved 8 November 2007.
  7. ^ "Nachos, anyone? – Word stories – Oxford English Dictionary". 2 January 2010. Archived from the original on 2 January 2010. Retrieved 24 October 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  8. ^ "Definition of ARGUS-EYED". www.merriam-webster.com.
  9. ^ Grant, Michael; Hazel, John (2 August 2004). Who's Who in Classical Mythology. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-50942-3.
  10. ^ "Augean Stable – Definition of Augean stable by Merriam-Webster".
  11. ^ Morton S. Freeman (18 December 1997). A New Dictionary of Eponyms. Oxford University Press, USA. pp. 122–. ISBN 978-0-19-509354-4.
  12. ^ Sommer, Toby J. 'Bahramdipity' and Scientific Research, The Scientist, 1999, 13(3), 13.
  13. ^ Sommer, Toby J. Bahramdipity and Nulltiple Scientific Discoveries, Science and Engineering Ethics, 2001, 7(1), 77–104.
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  15. ^ "Glossary of Staining Methods, Reagents, Immunostaining and Eponyms".
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  17. ^ Segre, Claudio G (9 August 1990). Italo Balbo. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-91069-0.
  18. ^ "Barnum effect – definition of Barnum effect in English from the Oxford dictionary". Archived from the original on 15 July 2013.
  19. ^ "Bidding adieu to a master inventor". 4 March 2024.
  20. ^ "Glossary of Staining Methods, Reagents, Immunostaining and Eponyms".
  21. ^ "Glossary of Staining Methods, Reagents, Immunostaining and Eponyms".
  22. ^ Carl B. Boyer: The Rainbow, from myth to mathematics, Figure 66
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  24. ^ "Glossary of Staining Methods, Reagents, Immunostaining and Eponyms".
  25. ^ "Hieronymus Bosch". Lambiek. Retrieved 16 July 2019. The word "Boschian" has become an eponym for any artistic depiction of Hell or the Middle Ages that resembles his work.
  26. ^ Payne, Gregory(1986). Tom Bradley: The Impossible Dream : A Biography Roundtable Pub. The chapter about Bradley Effect (Chapter 16 / pp. 243 – 288) is available online at "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 January 2009. Retrieved 16 October 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  27. ^ Girard, Louis; Lee, Hiram (15 December 2008). "30 years since the death of Jacques Brel: his life, his art, his legacy". www.wsws.org.
  28. ^ a b Senning, Alexander (30 October 2006). Elsevier's Dictionary of Chemoetymology: The Whys and Whences of Chemical Nomenclature and Terminology. Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-08-048881-3.
  29. ^ "Bruegel / Les bières belges • Bierebel, La bière en Belgique". www.bierebel.com. 14 October 2021.
  30. ^ "praten als Brugman (herkomst en betekenis) | Genootschap Onze Taal". Onze Taal. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)[permanent dead link]
  31. ^ "Wilhelm Busch". lambiek.net.
  32. ^ Saverio Tomasella, Le Syndrome de Calimero, 2017, Albin Michel ISBN 9782226324870
  33. ^ August Förster. Bernbrunn, Carl  (in German) – via Wikisource.
  34. ^ Gompertz, G.St.G.M., Chinese Celadon Wares, 1980 (2nd edn.), Faber & Faber, page 21. ISBN 0571180035
  35. ^ a b c Garg, Anu (30 October 2007). The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two. Penguin. ISBN 978-1-4406-2309-7.
  36. ^ Sky & Telescope, June 1958, page 414
  37. ^ Claiborne, Craig (19 September 1977). "De Gustibus: More on Lady Curzon's Turtle Soup". The New York Times.
  38. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Trahair, R. C. S (1994). From Aristotelian to Reaganomics. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-0-313-27961-4.
  39. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Freeman, Morton S (18 December 1997). A New Dictionary of Eponyms. ISBN 978-0-19-509354-4.
  40. ^ Martin, Douglas. "Al Copeland, a Restaurateur Known for Spice and Speed, Dies at 64". The New York Times, 25 March 2008
  41. ^ Hoffman, Ken, "Chicken Cordon Bleu est TACO tres magnifique", King Features Syndicate, published in The Gazette of Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, Iowa, 19 June 1998, p. 2, ("chain was named for Popeye Doyle, the cop in The French Connection") Archived online at newsbank.com. Retrieved 27 March 2008
  42. ^ "Definition of DRACONIAN". www.merriam-webster.com. 5 July 2023.
  43. ^ "Science: Draper's Memoirs". The Academy. XIV (338). London: Robert Scott Walker: 408. 26 October 1878.
  44. ^ J. R. Mahan (2002). Radiation heat transfer: a statistical approach (3rd ed.). Wiley-IEEE. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-471-21270-6.
  45. ^ "Zo kwam de AOW tot stand". Historisch Nieuwsblad. 14 December 2009.
  46. ^ "Home".
  47. ^ "Innl / Trekken van Drees". Archived from the original on 14 September 2016. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  48. ^ "Definition of DULCINEA". www.merriam-webster.com.
  49. ^ "Falstaffian | Definition of Falstaffian by Lexico". Lexico Dictionaries | English. Archived from the original on 22 November 2016.
  50. ^ Phillips, Walter Alison (1911). "Faust" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  51. ^ Faustian – pertaining to or resembling or befitting Faust or Faustus especially in insatiably striving for worldly knowledge and power even at the price of spiritual values; "a Faustian pact with the Devil". http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Faustian
  52. ^ "Federico Fellini". lambiek.net.
  53. ^ "Definition of FRANKENSTEIN". www.merriam-webster.com. 10 July 2023.
  54. ^ Rossiter, Margaret W. (1993). "The Matthew Matilda Effect in Science". Social Studies of Science. 23 (2): 325–341. doi:10.1177/030631293023002004. ISSN 0306-3127. JSTOR 285482. S2CID 145225097.
  55. ^ Jeske, Jeff (March 2004). Storied Words: The Writer's Vocabulary and Its Origins. iUniverse. ISBN 978-0-595-31376-1.
  56. ^ "Hugo Awards". The Locus Index to SF Awards: About the Awards. Locus Publications. Archived from the original on 3 January 2010. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
  57. ^ "Minutes of the Business Meeting 1991". World Science Fiction Society. Archived from the original on 7 May 2011. Retrieved 24 March 2013. Preliminary Session No. 1, Item E.2; Main Session No. 1, Item F.3 ( 30/31 August 1991)
  58. ^ "Terry Gilliam". lambiek.net.
  59. ^ "Het Vlaams woordenboek » lamme goedzak". www.vlaamswoordenboek.be.
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  61. ^ "Baracuta G9". Archived from the original on 1 May 2005.
  62. ^ "Ingenious and Inimitable, Artist William Hogarth Chided Authority, Ridiculed Pomposity, Mocked Religion, Pointed Out Misbehavior, and Invented the Satirical Comic Strip : The Colonial Williamsburg Journal". www.history.org.
  63. ^ "Definition of SHERLOCK". www.merriam-webster.com.
  64. ^ "sherlock" – via The Free Dictionary.
  65. ^ James H. Mantinband. Concise Dictionary of Greek Literature. New York: Philosophical Library, 1962.
  66. ^ "IUSTITIA". treccani.it.
  67. ^ "Definition of JEKYLL AND HYDE". www.merriam-webster.com. 2 March 2024.
  68. ^ "Jack Kirby". lambiek.net.
  69. ^ "Diedrich Knickerbocker | fictional character". Encyclopedia Britannica.
  70. ^ "2dec-23.HTM". hhrf.org. Archived from the original on 29 January 2004. Retrieved 12 January 2022.