List of eponymous adjectives in English
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An eponymous adjective is an adjective which has been derived from the name of a person, real or fictional. Persons from whose name the adjectives have been derived are called eponyms.
Following is a list of eponymous adjectives in English.
A–C
- Aaronic — Aaron (as in Aaronic Priesthood)
- Abbasid — Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib (as in Abbasid Dynasty)
- Abelian — Niels Henrik Abel (as in Abelian group)
- Abrahamic — Abraham (as in Abrahamic religions)
- Achillean — Achilles, of Greek mythology
- Adamic — Adam (as in Adamic language); also Adamite (as in pre-Adamite race)
- Addisonian — Thomas Addison (as in Addisonian crisis)
- Adlerian — Alfred Adler (as in Classical Adlerian psychology)
- Aegean — Aegeus, of Greek mythology (as in Aegean Sea)
- Aeolian — Aeolus, of Greek mythology (as in Aeolian Islands)
- Aeschylean — Aeschylus
- Aldine — Aldus Manutius (as in Aldine Press)
- Alexandrine — Alexander the Great (as in Alexandrine verse); also Alexandrian (as in Alexandrian period)
- Antonian — St. Anthony the Great (as in Antonian monasticism); Antoninus Pius (as in Nervan-Antonian dynasty)
- Antonine — Antoninus Pius (as in Antonine Wall); Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (as in Antonine Plague)
- Apollonian — Apollo, of Greek mythology (as in Apollonian Oracle); Apollonius of Perga (as in Apollonian gasket)
- Archimedean — Archimedes (as in Archimedean screw)
- Arian — Arius
- Aristotelian — Aristotle (as in Aristotelian logic)
- Arminian — Jacobus Arminius
- Arsacid — Arsaces I of Parthia (as in Arsacid Dynasty)
- Arthurian — King Arthur (as in Arthurian legend)
- Artinian — Emil Artin (as in Artinian ring)
- Ashmolean — Elias Ashmole (as in Ashmolean Museum)
- Asimovian — Isaac Asimov (as in Asimovian robot)
- Athanasian — St. Athanasius (as in Athanasian Creed)
- Augustan — Caesar Augustus (as in Augustan drama)
- Augustinian — St. Augustine (as in Augustinian Order)
- Baconian — Francis Bacon (as in Baconian cipher)
- Bahá'í — Bahá'u'lláh (as in Bahá'í Faith)
- Bangsian — John Kendrick Bangs (as in Bangsian fantasy)
- Bayesian — Thomas Bayes (as in Bayesian probability)
- Beckettian — Samuel Beckett
- Benedictine — Benedict of Nursia (as in Benedictine Rule)
- Bodleian — Thomas Bodley (as in Bodleian Library)
- Bolivarian — Simón Bolívar (as in Bolivarian Revolution)
- Boolean — George Boole (as in Boolean algebra, Boolean logic)
- Brechtian — Bertholt Brecht
- Brownian — Robert Brown (as in Brownian motion)
- Brunonian — John Brown (as in Brunonian system of medicine)
- Buddhist — Gautama Buddha (as in Buddhist rosary)
- Burkean — Edmund Burke
- Byronic — Lord Byron (as in Byronic hero)
- Caesarean — often incorrectly attributed to Julius Caesar (as in Caesarean section)
- Calvinist — John Calvin (as in Calvinist Church)
- Capetian — Hugh Capet (as in Capetian Dynasty)
- Capraesque — Frank Capra
- Carolingian — Charles Martel (as in Carolingian dynasty)
- Cartesian — René Descartes (as in Cartesian coordinate)
- Chaplinesque — Charlie Chaplin
- Chaucerian — Geoffrey Chaucer (as in Chaucerian stanza)
- chauvinistic — Nicolas Chauvin
- Chestertonian — G. K. Chesterton
- Chomskyan — Noam Chomsky
- Churchillian — Winston Churchill
- Claudian — Claudius (as in Julio-Claudian dynasty)
- Clintonesque — Bill Clinton
- Chekhovian — Anton Chekhov
- Columbian — Christopher Columbus (as in Columbian Exchange)
- Confucianist — Confucius
- Copernican — Nicolaus Copernicus (as in Copernican System)
- Cromwellian — Oliver Cromwell
- Cyrillic — St. Cyril (as in Cyrillic alphabet)
D–F
- daedal — Daedalus, of Greek mythology; also Daedalian or Daedalean
- Daliesque — Salvador Dalí
- Dantesque — Dante Alighieri; also Dantean
- Darwinian — Charles Darwin
- Davidic — David (as in Davidic line)
- Derridean — Jacques Derrida (as in Derridean Deconstruction)
- Dickensian — Charles Dickens
- Dionysian — Dionysus, of Greek mythology (as in Dionysian Mysteries); Dionysius Exiguus (as in Dionysian era)
- Dobsonian — John Dobson (as in Dobsonian mount)
- Dominican — Saint Dominic (as in Dominican Order)
- Dostoevskian — Fyodor Dostoevsky; also Dostoyevskian
- draconian — Draco
- Edisonian — Thomas Edison (as in Edisonian approach)
- Edwardian — King Edward VII
- Edwardsian — Jonathan Edwards
- Einsteinian — Albert Einstein
- Elizabethan — Queen Elizabeth I (as in Elizabethan era)
- Emersonian — Ralph Waldo Emerson (as in Emersonian perfectionism)
- Enochian — Enoch (as in Enochian magick)
- epicurean — Epicurus
- Erasmian — Erasmus (as in Erasmian Reformation)
- Euclidean — Euclid (as in Euclidean geometry, Euclidean algorithm)
- Euripidean — Euripides
- Eustachian — Eustachius (as in Eustachian tube)
- Fallopian — Gabriele Falloppio (as in Fallopian tube)
- Falstaffian — Sir John Falstaff, Shakespeare's fictional character
- Faulknerian — William Faulkner
- Faustian — Faust, Goethe's fictional character (as in Faustian deal)
- Felliniesque — Federico Fellini
- Flavian — Titus Flavius Vespasianus (Vespasian) (as in Flavian dynasty)
- Fortean — Charles Fort (as in Fortean Society)
- Franciscan — St. Francis of Assisi (as in Franciscan Order)
- Franklinic — Benjamin Franklin (as in Franklinic electricity, franklinic taste)
- Freudian — Sigmund Freud (as in Freudian slip)
G–J
- Galilean — Galileo Galilei (as in Galilean moons)
- Galvanic — Luigi Galvani (as in Galvanic cell)
- Gandhian — Mahatma Gandhi
- gargantuan — Gargantua, Rabelais's fictional character
- Gaussian — Carl Friedrich Gauss (as in Gaussian function)
- Georgian — King George I (as in Georgian architecture)
- Gödelian — Kurt Gödel (as in Gödelian incompleteness)
- Gregorian — Pope Gregory I (as in Gregorian chant); Pope Gregory XIII (as in Gregorian calendar)
- Hamiltonian — Sir William Rowan Hamilton (as in Hamiltonian path); Alexander Hamilton
- Hamitic — Ham (as in Hamitic languages)
- Hegelian — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (as in Hegelian dialectic)
- herculean — Hercules, of Greek mythology (as in herculean task)
- hermaphroditic — Hermaphroditus, of Greek mythology
- hermetic — Hermes Trismegistus, a mythological alchemist (as in hermetic seal)
- Herodian — Herod the Great (as in Herodian dynasty)
- Hilbertian — David Hilbert (as in Hilbertian field)
- Hippocratic — Hippocrates (as in Hippocratic Oath)
- Hitchcockian — Alfred Hitchcock
- Hitlerian — Adolf Hitler
- Hobbesian — Thomas Hobbes
- Holmesian — Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle's fictional character; also Sherlockian
- Homeric — Homer
- Horatian — Horace (as in Horatian satire)
- Hussite — Jan Hus (as in Hussite Wars)
- Jacksonian — Andrew Jackson (as in Jacksonian democracy); John Hughlings Jackson (as in Jacksonian seizure)
- Jacobean — King James I (as in Jacobean era)
- Jacobian — Carl Gustav Jacobi (as in Jacobian matrix)
- Jacobite — King James II (as in Jacobite Rising)
- Jagiellonian — Władysław II Jagiełło (as in Jagiellonian dynasty)
- Japhetic — Japheth (as in Japhetic theory}
- Jeffersonian — Thomas Jefferson (as in Jeffersonian democracy or Jeffersonian Model)
- Johnsonian — Samuel Johnson
- Jordanesque — Michael Jordan (usually denotes remarkable athletic achievement or dominance)
- Joycean — James Joyce (as in Pre-Joycean Fellowship)
- Julian — Julius Caesar (as in Julian calendar)
- Jungian — Carl Jung (as in Jungian psychology)
- Junoesque — Juno, of Roman mythology
- Juvenalian — Juvenal (as in Juvenalian Satire)
K–M
- Kafkaesque — Franz Kafka
- Kantian — Immanuel Kant
- Keynesian — John Maynard Keynes (as in Keynesian economics)
- Kierkegaardian — Søren Kierkegaard
- Lamarckian — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (as in Lamarckian evolution)
- Laplacian — Pierre-Simon Laplace (as in Laplacian field, Laplacian matrix)
- Levitical — Levi (as in Levitical Priesthood)
- Leibnizian — Gottfried Leibniz (as in Leibnizian calculus)
- Linnaean — Carolus Linnaeus (as in Linnaean taxonomy)
- Lockean — John Locke
- Lorentzian — Hendrik Lorentz (as in Lorentzian function)
- Lovecraftian — H. P. Lovecraft (as in Lovecraftian horror)
- Lucasian — Henry Lucas (as in Lucasian Professor)
- Lullian — Ramon Llull (as in Lullian art); also Llullian
- Lutheran — Martin Luther
- macadamized — John Loudon McAdam (as in macadamized system)
- Maccabean — Judas Maccabeus (as in Maccabean revolt)
- Machiavellian — Niccolò Machiavelli (often used to represent views or behavior inconsistent with that of its eponym)
- Madisonian — James Madison (as in Madisonian Model)
- Magellanic — Ferdinand Magellan (as in Magellanic Clouds)
- Malthusian — Thomas Malthus (as in Malthusian catastrophe)
- Manichean — Mani; also Manichaean
- manueline — Manuel I of Portugal
- Marian — Mary (as in Marian apparition)
- Marivaudian — Pierre de Marivaux
- Markovian — Andrey Markov (as in Markovian process)
- Marlovian — Christopher Marlowe
- martial — Mars, of Roman mythology
- Marxist — Karl Marx (as in Marxist theory); also Marxian (as in Marxian economics)
- maudlin — Mary Magdalene
- Maxwellian — James Clerk Maxwell (as in Maxwellian distribution, Maxwellian demon)
- Mazarine — Jules Cardinal Mazarin (as in mazarine blue)
- McCarthyist — Joseph McCarthy
- Mendelian — Gregor Mendel (as in Mendelian inheritance)
- Menippean — Menippus (as in Menippean satire)
- Merovingian — Merovech (as in Merovingian dynasty)
- Metonic — Meton (as in Metonic cycle)
- Miltonic — John Milton; also Miltonian
- Mithridatic — Mithridates VI (as in Mithridatic Wars)
- Mosaic — Moses (as in Mosaic Law, but not as in mosaic floor)
- Muhammadan — Muhammad (as in Muhammadan art)
N–Q
- Napoleonic — Napoléon Bonaparte
- narcissistic — Narcissus, of Greek mythology (as in Narcissistic personality disorder)
- Neronian — Nero
- Nervan — Nerva (as in Nervan-Antonian dynasty)
- Nestorian — Nestorius (as in Nestorian Schism)
- Newtonian — Isaac Newton (as in Newtonian telescope)
- Nietzschean — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Noachian — Noah (as in Noachian deluge)
- Noetherian — Emmy Noether (as in Noetherian ring)
- Oedipal — Oedipus, of Greek mythology (as in Oedipal complex)
- onanistic — Onan
- Orphic — Orpheus, of Greek mythology (as in Orphic Mysteries)
- Orwellian — George Orwell
- Ottoman — Osman I (as in Ottoman Empire)
- Ottonian — Otto I the Great (as in Ottonian Dynasty)
- Oxfordian — Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (as in Oxfordian theory)
- Palladian — Andrea Palladio (as in Palladian architecture)
- Paracelsian — Paracelsus
- parkinsonian — James Parkinson (as in parkinsonian syndrome)
- Pauline — Paul of Tarsus (as in Pauline epistles)
- Pavlovian — Ivan Pavlov (as in Pavlovian conditioning)
- Pelagian — Pelagius (as in Pelagian heresy)
- Periclean — Pericles (as in Periclean Athens)
- Piagetian — Jean Piaget (as in Piagetian theory)
- Pickwickian — Samuel Pickwick, Dickens' fictional character
- Pinteresque — Harold Pinter
- platonic — Plato (as in Platonic love)
- Plinian— Pliny (as in a Plinian eruption)
- Plutarchian — Plutarch
- plutonic — Pluto, of Greek & Roman mythology (as in Plutonic theory); also plutonian
- Procrustean — Procrustes, of Greek mythology
- Promethean — Prometheus, of Greek mythology
- protean — Proteus, of Greek mythology
- Proustian — Marcel Proust
- Ptolemaic — Ptolemy (as in Ptolemaic system); Ptolemy I Soter (as in Ptolemaic dynasty)
- Pyrrhic — Pyrrhus of Epirus (as in Pyrrhic victory)
- Pyrrhonian — Pyrrho (as in Pyrrhonian skepticism)
- Pythagorean — Pythagoras (as in Pythagorean theorem)
- quixotic — Don Quixote, Cervantes' fictional character
R–U
- Rabelaisian — François Rabelais
- Randian — Ayn Rand (as in Randian hero)
- Raphaelesque — Raphael; also Raphaelite (as in Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood)
- Rastafarian — Ras Tafari (Haile Selassie)
- Reaganesque — Ronald Reagan
- Richardsonian — Henry Hobson Richardson (as in Richardsonian Romanesque)
- Riemannian — Bernhard Riemann (as in Riemannian geometry)
- ritzy — César Ritz
- Rockwellian — Norman Rockwell
- rodomontade — Rodomonte, Boiardo's and Ariosto's fictional character
- Rogerian — Carl Rogers (as in Rogerian therapy)
- Rothbardian — Murray N. Rothbard
- Ruthian — Babe Ruth
- Sadistic — Marquis de Sade
- Samsonian — Samson
- Sapphic — Sappho (as in Sapphic love)
- Sassanid — Sassan (as in Sassanid dynasty); also Sassanian
- satanic — Satan (as in Satanic Verses)
- Seleucid — Seleucus I Nicator (as in Seleucid Empire)
- Semitic — Shem (as in Semitic languages)
- Senecan — Seneca (as in Senecan Tragedy)
- Severan — Septimius Severus (as in Severan dynasty)
- Shakespearean — William Shakespeare (as in Shakespearean authorship, Shakespearean tragedy)
- Shavian — George Bernard Shaw (as in Shavian alphabet, Shavian reversal)
- Sistine — Pope Sixtus IV (as in Sistine Chapel)
- Sisyphean — Sisyphus, of Greek mythology
- Skinnerian — B. F. Skinner (as in Skinnerian behaviorism)
- Smithsonian — James Smithson (as in Smithsonian Institution)
- Socratic — Socrates (as in Socratic method)
- Solonian — Solon (as in Solonian Constitution)
- Sophoclean — Sophocles
- Spencerian — Platt Rogers Spencer (as in Spencerian script)
- Spenserian — Edmund Spenser (as in Spenserian stanza)
- Stalinist — Joseph Stalin (as in Stalinist architecture)
- stentorian — Stentor, of Greek mythology
- Tennysonian — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Thomist — St. Thomas Aquinas (as in Thomist philosophy)
- Thomsonian — Dr. Samuel Thomson (as in Thomsonian Medicine)
- Thoreauvian — Henry David Thoreau
- Timurid — Timur (Tamerlane) (as in Timurid Empire)
- Tironian — Marcus Tullius Tiro (as in Tironian notes)
- titian — Titian
- Tolstoyan — Leo Tolstoy; also Tolstoian
- Trotskyist — Leon Trotsky
- Tychonic — Tycho Brahe (as in Tychonic system); also Tychonian
- Umayyad — Umayya ibn Abd Shams (as in Umayyad Dynasty)
V–Z
- Vesalian — Vesalius
- Victorian — Queen Victoria (as in Victorian era)
- Vitruvian — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (as in Vitruvian Man)
- Voltaic — Alessandro Volta (as in Voltaic pile)
- Voltairean — Voltaire
- Vygotskian — Lev Vygotsky
- Wagnerian — Richard Wagner (as in Wagnerian rock)
- Waldensian — Peter Waldo (as in Waldensian Church)
- Washingtonian — George Washington; Martha Washington (as in Washingtonian movement)
- Wesleyan — John Wesley (as in Wesleyan Church)
- Wilsonian — Woodrow Wilson
- Wolffian — Caspar Friedrich Wolff (as in Wolffian duct)
- Wronskian — Josef Hoëné-Wroński (as in Wronskian determinant)
- Zoroastrian — Zoroaster (Zarathustra); also Zarathustrian
- Zwinglian — Ulrich Zwingli
See also
- List of eponyms
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