eponymous Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym
    eponymic.

WordNet


E*pon"y*mous adjective
Etymology
Gr. upon, to + for name.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913