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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).
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