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6 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the person for whom something is named
noun the name derived from a person (real or imaginary)
originFrom Latin eponymus, from Ancient Greek ἐπώνῠμος (epṓnŭmos), from ἐπί (epí, “upon, epi-”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”) + -ος (-os, suffix forming adjectives and nouns). Equivalent to epi- + -nym.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0