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September 10, 2025Terminological Bulletin0 citations

Study of Eponymous Terms in Branch Terminology Systems (Review of Scientific Papers)

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ІKІryna Kochan

Key Points

  • Eponymous terms hold considerable importance across various scientific disciplines, facilitating specialized communication.
  • The review identifies the principles and methods of studying terms derived from proper names, showcasing their broad usage in medicine and science.
  • The examination of scientific works reveals diverse approaches used to analyze term structures, particularly in technical fields.
  • Explanatory dictionaries serve as key resources for researchers, documenting the history and significance of these specialized lexemes.

Abstract

Proper names in terminological systems have long attracted the attention of researchers and specialists. And they were not in the focus of philologists and linguists only. Scientists of various professions were interested in such terms. They wrote about them, revealed the secrets of their emergence their scientific names, the reasons for the creation of eponymous terms, and demonstrated various scientific approaches to the analysis of term structures with onyms. The article attempts to review scientific works on terms with eponyms, to indicate the scientific direction in which they exist, the researchers who described them, the principles and methods of studying such lexemes, which have taken a prominent place in the medical field, in the physical and mathematical sciences, in botany, agricultural products, and are also found in technical fields, etc. Many such terms are recorded in the explanatory dictionaries, where researchers mainly take their material, as well as from monographs, collections of scientific works, textbooks, and manuals of a certain scientific direction.

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Іryna Kochan (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c1b81854b1d3bfb60ec468https://doi.org/10.37919/2221-8807-2025-8-3
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