Eponyms

Description
(noun) A word that is derived from the proper name of a person or place. The person or place may be real or fantasized. The word usually comes from its creator or the person who invented that object.

Examples

 * sandwich: named after John Montagu, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich (1718–1792), a British politician.


 * cardigan: a knitted garment, such as a sweater or jacket, that opens down the front. Named after the Seventh Earl of Cardigan, James Thomas Brudenell (1797–1868), a British army officer.


 * saxophone: named after Sax, the surname of a 19th-century instrument-making family in Belgium.


 * kleenex: the company "Kleenex" was such a popular seller of tissues that eventually, the public began calling the common object, tissues, "Kleenexes"


 * achilles' heel: named after Achille, a greek mythological character, who was dipped into the river of Styx by his heel and became untouchable and immortal exept for his heel which was not dipped


 * adam's apple: from adam, a biblical character - believed to be the first man on Earth.