中英互译
eponym
英 /ˈepənɪm/美 /ˈepənɪm/
基本释义
- n.名字被用于命名地方的人，齐名的人
双语例句
- You of course know that an eponym is a word that started out as someone’s name.您肯定知道，名祖指的是这样一类单词：一开始它们只是某人的名字，后来却被用来特指某类人或事。
- I was being interviewed recently and talking about a certain eponym that had morphed after it was first coined.最近，在接受了一个采访时，我谈到了一个特定的 名祖 （eponym）——它被创造出来以后，就彻底变了味。
- Eponym is such a kind of vocabulary that is transformed from the proper noun (personal name, place name and trade name). These transformed words can be eponymous nouns, adjectives, adverbs and verbs.名祖词主要是由专有名词(人名、地名、商标名称)转化而来的词汇，这些转化后的词汇可以是名词、形容词、副词和动词。
同根词
英英释义
- n.the person for whom something is named
- n.the name derived from a person (real or imaginary)
词源
- eponym名祖（用姓名，名称命名地方，发现，发明等）epi-, 在上，在中。-onym, 名字，词源同name, anonymous.