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FLORIANA POPESCU, DANIELA ŞORCARU
replaced by a French one), Bozzi’s foramen by pata Mariotte (where the Italian
name was replaced by another French one); nevertheless, there have been
recorded instances where Italian names were given, in Romanian other
eponymous versions to include English or German names of persons, as in the
structures fallopian neuritis translated through paralizie Bell, and Galeati’s
gland rendered by glandele Lieberkühn.
Most of the eponyms pertaining to general English, even if not essentially
stylistic devices, have nevertheless a certain degree of connotational charge;
those belonging to jargons or professional terminologies are certainly lexical
instruments.
Eponyms: an instance of linguistic interculturality
The widespread use of some eponyms, particularly those in the scientific,
technical and technological languages, grants them a certain degree of
internationality and allows them access among the other lexical units or
formations which have acknowledged international recognition.
And indeed they have, for simple eponyms have travelled from one
language to another and so did specialist ones. Thus, an extremely reduced
number of examples will be enumerated to account for the spreading of eponyms
originating in a certain European country in at least two other languages
(English and Romanian): dahlia - dalie (
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