Vocabulary: eponymous

Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions the word eponymous.

Eponymous is an adjective, and tells that something’s name isn’t due to itself; rather, it’s named after someone. Pi isn’t eponymous, but Planck’s Constant is.

Source:

britannica.com

Barber, Katherine et al. Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current English. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2005.