EPONYMOUS

E‐pon″y‐mous (?), a. [[Gr. �; επἴ upon, to + � for � name.]] Relating to an eponym; giving one's name to a tribe, people, country, and the like. What becomes . . . of the Herakleid genealogy of the Spartan kings, when it is admitted that eponymous persons are to be canceled as fictions? Grote.