EPONYMS. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS ON SOME INTERNATIONAL TERMS
EPONYMS. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS ON SOME INTERNATIONAL TERMS

Summary/Abstract: Eponyms are common nouns derived from proper names, although very few people still make the connection between the proper and the corresponding common noun. (Terms derived from important historical events or from those belonging to classical ancient times, personalities’ names, or heroes of the world literature). My paper represents an exciting and surprising short history of some usual words which have become international. We are going to approach the making of international eponyms from a semantic perspective, not a morphological one. It is about reinterpreting through antonomasia, metonimy or any other procedure of changing the significance of a proper noun into a common one.

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