-onym, -onymy, -onymic, -onymically, -onymous, -onymously, -nym +

A private or secret name.

A reference to, or a description of, a private or secret name.

A name that is concealed; anonymous.

A word that denotes the members of a people or the inhabitants of a place.

In English, the name of a people's language is often the same as this word; such as, the "French" (which refers to the language and/or the people).

A name consisting of two terms (as the names in zoology or botany, the two terms of which denote respectively the genus and species).

Home name, used to identify people from particular places: Philadelphians, Annapolitans, Texans, Americans, Germans, etc.

1. Someone who gives, or is supposed to give, his/her name to a people, place, or institution; e.g. among the Greeks, the heroes who were looked upon as ancestors or founders of tribes or cities. Also in Latin form eponymus.
2. A name from which another name or word is derived; such as, "sandwich" coming from The Earl of Sandwich and "Rome" which is derived from Romulus.
3. The name of a method, test, etc., which is based on the name of a person connected with it in some way.

1. Being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym.
2. A reference to something named after someone.

For example, a condition called Sherman's syndrome might be named after someone named Sherman, who discovered it, or described and clearly delineated it.

A real or legendary person whose name has been used as an eponym.

1. A person from whose name the name of a city, family, nation, disease, etc., is derived.
2. One who gives, or is supposed to give, his name to a people, place, or institution; e.g. among the Greeks, the heroes who were looked upon as ancestors or founders of tribes or cities.
3. Any ancient official whose name was used to designate his year of office.

1. Derivation of a name of a city, country, era, institution, or other place or thing from that of a person.
2. The name of a person, whether real or fictitious, who has (or is thought to have) given rise to the name of a particular place, tribe, era, discovery, or other item.

1. A proper name by which a people or an ethnic group is known.
2. The name of an ethnic group, whether that name has been assigned by another group; such as, an exonym; or self-assigned; such as, an autonym.

At one time when ethnonyms were acceptable references, they could also become offensive, or become ethinic slurs. Examples of "unacceptable ethnonyms" include Gypsy for Roma; "Nigger", Negro, or colored for "black" people; and historical references: "vandal", "Bushman", "barbarian", and "Philistine".

1. A name well suited to the person, place, or thing named; well named; properly named; a good name; a name that is apt or fitting.
2. A lucky, or auspicious name, for example: Celeste Holmes and Harry Truman.

1. A name by which one people or social group refers to another and by which the group so named does not refer to itself.
2. The name of a city or other place used in a foreign language which is not the same at the originating language; such as, Florence (English) for Firenze (Italian).

Additional examples: Londres (French) an exonym for London, Germany (English) is an exonym because Germans use the term Deutschland.

A name derived from that of a son.