[Lexicog] names as characteristic of a category

[Wayne Leman]

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> 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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