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ἐπωνύμους (eponymous)

ἐπωνύμους is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπώνυμος, meaning “named after”. It is the accusative plural feminine adjective.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Romulus 20.2: … τι νῦν τὰς φυλὰς καλοῦσι καὶ τριβούνους τοὺς φυλάρχους. ἑκάστη δὲ φυλὴ δέκα φρατρίας εἶχεν, ἃς ἔνιοι λέγουσιν ἐπωνύμους ἐκείνων εἶναι τῶν γυναικῶν. τοῦτο δὲ δοκεῖ ψεῦδος εἶναι· πολλαὶ γὰρ ἔχουσιν ἀπὸ χωρίων τὰς προσηγορίας.

All forms of ἐπώνυμος (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.