An eponym is a person, a place, or a thing after which or for which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named. Adjectives derived from the word eponym include eponymous and eponymic .
12-544: Morwenna is the eponymous patron saint of Morwenstow , a civil parish and village in north Cornwall , UK. Her name is thought to be cognate with Welsh morwyn "maiden", although the first name is also used in Wales and Brittany and said to be composed of "Mor" and "Gwenn", meaning "White sea" in both Welsh and Breton . Morwenna first appears in a 12th-century life of Saint Nectan that lists her alongside Endelient , Mabyn and Menfre (among many others) as
24-635: A daughter of the Welsh king Brychan . She was trained in Ireland before crossing over to Cornwall. Morwenna made her home in a little hermitage at Hennacliff (the Raven's Crag), afterwards called Morwenstow (meaning "Morwenna's holy-place "). It stands near the top of a high cliff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, where the sea is almost constantly stormy, and from where, in certain atmospheric conditions,
36-399: A person – or, less commonly, a place or thing – for which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named. Eponym may also refer to someone or something named after, or believed to be named after, a person – or, less commonly, a place or thing. A person, place, or thing named after a particular person share an eponymous relationship. In this way, Elizabeth I of England is the eponym of
48-470: Is Ad usum Delphini ; referring to a series of consciously censored classical works. A fig-leaf edition is a more satirical term for a bowdlerized text, deriving from the practice of covering the genitals of nudes in classical and Renaissance statues and paintings with fig leaves . Another term used in related discourse is censorship by political correctness . When this practice is adopted voluntarily, by publishers of new editions or translators, it
60-510: Is deprecable . Periods have often been named after a ruler or other influential figure: Trends For examples, see the comparison table below. By person's name By category Bowdlerize An expurgation of a work, also known as a bowdlerization , fig-leaf edition or censorship by political correctness is a form of censorship that involves purging anything deemed noxious or offensive from an artistic work or other type of writing or media. The term bowdlerization
72-474: Is often used in the context of the expurgation of lewd material from books. The term derives from Thomas Bowdler 's 1818 edition of William Shakespeare 's plays, which he reworked in ways that he felt were more suitable for women and children. He similarly edited Edward Gibbon 's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire . A less common term used in this context, also based on common editorial practice,
84-500: The Elizabethan era , but the Elizabethan era can also be referred to as the eponym of Elizabeth I of England . Eponyms may be named for things or places, for example 10 Downing Street , a building named after its street address. Adjectives and verbs may be eponyms, for example bowdlerize . Adjectives derived from the word eponym include eponymous and eponymic . When Henry Ford is referred to as "the eponymous founder of
96-759: The Ford Motor Company ", his surname "Ford" and the name of the motor company have an eponymous relationship. The word "eponym" can also refer to the title character of a fictional work (such as Rocky Balboa of the Rocky film series ), as well as to self-titled works named after their creators (such as the album The Doors by the band the Doors ). Walt Disney created the eponymous Walt Disney Company , with his name similarly extended to theme parks such as Walt Disney World . Medical eponymous terms are often called medical eponyms , although that usage
108-445: The coast of Wales can be seen. She built a church there, for the local people, with her own hands. It is said that she carried the stone on her head from beneath the cliff and where she once stopped for a rest, a spring gushed forth to the west of the church. Early in the sixth century, while she lay dying, her brother, St. Nectan, came to see her, and she asked him to raise her up so that she might look once more on her native shore. She
120-648: The west of the church, 'halfway down a precipice' and is now dry. The well house is a grade II listed building . In legend this is the spot where Morwenna once stopped to rest whilst carrying stones from the beach below up to the church she was building on the cliff top. Eponymous Eponyms are commonly used for time periods, places, innovations, biological nomenclature, astronomical objects, works of art and media, and tribal names. Various orthographic conventions are used for eponyms. The term eponym functions in multiple related ways, all based on an explicit relationship between two named things. Eponym may refer to
132-513: Was added as a dedication c. 1275 when the church was given to St John the Baptist's hospital in Bridgwater ). Morwenna of Morwenstow is commonly misidentified with "Marwenne" of Marhamchurch and the patron of Lamorran , a saint "Moren". According to Nicholas Orme , a well in the parish (at SS 198 153 ) is nowadays associated with her; it is located just over 500 metres to
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#1732790861201144-478: Was buried at the church in Morwenstow. A painting was later found on the north wall of the Morwenstow church, thought to represent St. Morwenna. It shows a gaunt female clasping a scroll to her breast with her left hand; the right arm is raised in blessing over a kneeling monk. A local saint , she is depicted in a stained glass window of the parish church, St Morwenna and St John the Baptist's ( Saint John
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