[Lexicog] names as characteristic of a category

[Scott Nelson]

As Shakespeare once said, "Let it be said." Whatever is repeated becomes idiomatic.
  

Melissa Axelrod <axelrod at unm.edu> wrote:
          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> 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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