ἐπωνυμίας (eponymias)

ἐπωνυμίας is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπωνυμία, meaning “surname, name”.

It can also be a form of ἐπωνύμιος, “named after”. It is the accusative plural feminine adjective.

Found 59 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.152: … ρον δὲ τῇ παλινδρομίᾳ τοῦ ἡλίου ἀφʼ ἡμῶν γίνεσθαι. 〈τοὺς δʼ ἀνέμους ἀέρος εἶναι ῥύσεις· παραλλαττούσας δὲ τὰς ἐπωνυμίας γίνεσθαι〉 παρὰ τοὺς τόπους ἀφʼ ὧν ῥέουσι. τῆς δὲ γενέσεως αὐτῶν αἴτιον γίνεσθαι τὸν ἥλιον ἐξατμίζοντα τὰ νέφη …

All forms of ἐπωνυμία (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.