What is one from whom a race, tribe, city, or the like, took its name; an eponym called?
eponymist — One from whom a race, tribe, city, or the like, took its name; an eponym. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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