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Mw99
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 Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 5:29 pm Post subject: Human dictionaries: I need your help |
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Does anyone know where I can find or can someone help me compile a list of words taken from given names?
I found a few:
machiavellian
maverick
quixotic
homeric
Please help me find more. Thanks |
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Gromit
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| Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 5:45 pm Post subject: Re: Human dictionaries: I need your help |
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| Mw99 wrote: | Does anyone know where I can find or can someone help me compile a list of words taken from given names?
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A few political ones (and not a single one of them is good for you):
Thatcherite
Marxist
Leninist
Stalinist
Maoist
Some scientific theories are named after the people who thought of them:
Darwinian, Darwinist
Freudian (OK, not sure this is science)
Newtonian
Aristotelian
Platonic
Socratic (as in Socratic method) |
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Dyspergian
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List of eponyms (that's what they're called) on Wikipedia here.
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Willard
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I believe maverick became a name after it's general usage meaning rogue or loner. Perhaps due to the James Garner television show.
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Spiridon
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Socratic
Platonic
Sadist
Lesbian |
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Thomas1138
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John Hancock (signature)
Jeffersonian
Bowie (knife)
teddy bears (after Theodore Roosevelt)
Baby Ruth bars (after Ruth Cleaveland)
diesel engines
Napoleonic |
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califmom
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| Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 6:49 pm Post subject: human dictionaries: I need your help |
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Oedipal
Montessorian
Berkleism
Draconian
Jungian
not to mention the various elements on the periodic table.... |
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ross54
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| Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 8:45 pm Post subject: chemical element names=proper names |
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| Curium-Curie, Einsteinium-Einstein, Fermium-Fermi, Mendelevium-Mendeleev, Nobelium-Nobel, Lawrencium- Lawrence, Rutherfordium-Rutherford, Hahnium-Hahn, Seaborgium- Seaborg. If mythological names count, add: Niobium-Niobe, Thorium-Thor, Uranium-Uranus,Neptunium-Neptune, Plutonium-Pluto. Obscure name connections: Americium-for America- which was named for Amerigo Vespucci, and Europium for Europe, named for goddess Europa. |
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Cartesian: refers to Rene Descartes
Kantian: refers to Immanuel Kant
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| Willard wrote: | | I believe maverick became a name after its general usage meaning rogue or loner. Perhaps due to the James Garner television show. |
It comes from the family name of a South Texas rancher who let his unbranded cattle run loose. His son (or grandson) was a congressman from Texas. |
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- Hemingwayesque
- Kafkaesque
- Hobbesian
- Cartesian
- Freudian
- Washingtonian
- Jacobite
- Rousseauvian
- Platonic
- Aristotelean
- Rome (in Roman mythology, named after Romulus)
- Tiber (again, according to legend)
- Lamarckian
Just search a dictionary for eponyms. |
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Some adjectives refer to the origin of something during the reign of a monarch or pope:
Victorian
Edwardian
Georgian
Gregorian
Some religious orders are named after their founders:
Franciscan
Benedictine
Dominican
Bolivia is named after Simon Bolivar. I don't know of any other country named after a person, unless you count Rome and its empire. |
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wolphin
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"pyrrhic" comes from Pyrrhus, who was a Greek who successfully attacked the Romans, but whose army suffered so many losses that he had to give up eventually. Therefore "pyrrhic" now refers to any time anyone wins or is successful, but ruins themselves in the process of winning (so that there was no benefit to winning)
There are lots of other examples from greek history, like hercules -> herculean, and if you're allowed to count fictional characters, odysseus->odyssey
edit: actually, democritus/democracy don't have a direct connection. never mind  |
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Belfast
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Malthusian (Thos. Malthus)
Calvinist
Dionysian (sorry, can't spell Dionysis ?)
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