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For some eponymous terms, the eponymy is obvious, or famous: Caesarean section ; graham cracker ; Molotov cocktail ; boycott ; leotard ; Luddite ; silhouette ; volt . Many more eponyms, though familiar, are not so obviously eponymous.
The surge in eponyms is no doubt related, in part, to the efflorescence of metanames in general.
But what are we to do about eponyms?
The category of eponyms might be subdivided to add literatonym (pronounced lit-er-AH-to-nym), meaning a word derived from the name of a person or place in literature and mythonym , meaning a literatonym derived from mythology ( Herculean from Hercules, and, less obviously, martial from Mars).
The difference between it and "Heimlich" or "sandwich," to take two more common eponyms, is that there are many, many other terms for oral sex, but none for the Heimlich maneuver or a sandwich.