[Lexicog] names as characteristic of a category

[Melissa Axelrod]

Quisling, Benedict Arnold, Babbitt?

Wayne Leman wrote:
>
> And there is also the English word "quixotic".
>  
> Wayne Leman
>  
>
>     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
>     <mailto: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.
>             Fritz
>
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