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eponymous
1. A person from whose name the name of a city, family, nation, disease, etc., is derived.
2. One who gives, or is supposed to give, his name to a people, place, or institution; e.g. among the Greeks, the heroes who were looked upon as ancestors or founders of tribes or cities.
3. Any ancient official whose name was used to designate his year of office.
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(words which originated from the names of people, things, and places)
(Latin: Syphil[us], the eponymous main character of Girolamo Fracastoro's poem "Syphilus sive Morbus Gallicus" [Syphilus, or the French Disease], published at Verona, Italy [1530])