The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἐπωνυμία
- Latin · learned borrowing fromepōnymia
- English todayeponymy
Learned borrowing from Latin epōnymia, from Ancient Greek ἐπωνυμία (epōnumía), from ἐπώνυμος (epṓnumos, adjective) + -ία (-ía). By surface analysis, eponym + -y.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.