[Lexicog] names as characteristic of a category

[Hayim Sheynin]

How about Messalina, the wife of emperor Claudius? Did she made a category of harlots?

The another male name is Don Quijote / Don Quixote. There is even adjective
donquixottish., exacly like napoleonic.

Fritz Goerling <Fritz_Goerling at sil.org> wrote:                                          
        Hayim,
  How about a Penelope figure, a faithful wife who waits patiently for her husband to return? On the male side: someone is a Hercules. 
  Fritz
  Hayim Sheynin asked: 
  
 What other names of wives of famous men can be a characteristic of a category?
 
 Hayim
 
 Fritz Goerling <Fritz_Goerling at sil.org> wrote:
          In some languages the names of wives of famous men have entered the language
  
    to characterize a certain kind of woman: like Xanthippe (Socrates’wife) is used in English and German.
  
     
  
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