You are sure to know of antonyms and synonyms, but do you know of eponyms. Boycott and Fahrenheit are examples of eponyms. The words were derived from or based on a person's name.
Did you see the recent article in Nature titled 'Eponyms have no place in 21st-century biological nomenclature'? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02022-y
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