eponym，英語單詞，主要用作名詞，作名詞時譯為“名字被用於命名地方的人，齊名的人”。
基本介紹
- 外文名：eponym
- 詞性：名詞
- 英式發音：[ˈepənɪm]
- 美式發音：[ˈepənɪm]
單詞用法,雙語例句,
單詞用法
N a name, esp a place name, derived from the name of a real or mythical person, as for example Constantinople from Constantine I 源於真人或神話人物的名字(尤指地名); 比如地名“君士坦丁堡”源於人名“君斯坦丁”
雙語例句
You of course know that an eponym is a word that started out as someone’s name.
您肯定知道，名祖指的是這樣一類單詞：一開始它們只是某人的名字，後來卻被用來特指某類人或事。
I was being interviewed recently and talking about a certain eponym that had morphed after it was first coined.
最近，在接受了一個採訪時，我談到了一個特定的 名祖 （eponym）——它被創造出來以後，就徹底變了味。
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.
名祖詞主要是由專有名詞(人名、地名、商標名稱)轉化而來的辭彙，這些轉化後的辭彙可以是名詞、形容詞、副詞和動詞。
