| Tag | Description | Names |
|---|---|---|
| commemorative |
Name references a named entity
|
31 |
| eponym |
Named after a real person
|
12 |
| ethnonym |
Named after a people, ethnic group, clan, or community
|
2 |
| institutonym |
Named after an institution, project, or organization
|
3 |
| mythonym |
Named after a deity, mythological figure, or fictional person or character
|
3 |
| organonym |
Named after another organism or taxon
|
11 |
| dimensional |
Name references a time, number, order, or physical measure
|
1 |
| chrononym |
Named after a time, period, season, or calendar unit
|
1 |
| metronym |
Named after a measurement, coordinate, or physical parameter (depth, elevation, etc.)
|
0 |
| numeronym |
Named after a number, quantity, or order
|
0 |
| formed |
Name whose construction is the defining feature
|
4 |
| acronym |
Formed from initials or an abbreviation
|
3 |
| arbitrary |
Constructed for phonotactic or orthographic reasons
|
1 |
| geographic |
Name references a place or environment
|
23 |
| econym |
Named after a habitat or environmental feature (e.g. marinus, lacustris, thermophilus)
|
11 |
| fictional place |
Named after a fictional or mythological place
|
1 |
| toponym |
Named after a real geographic place (country, region, city, river, lake, ocean, mountain, etc.)
|
10 |
| trait |
Name describes a phenotypic, physiological, or metabolic property of the organism itself
|
22 |
| chemonym |
Named after a chemical compound, element, or metabolic property
|
20 |
| phenonym |
Named after a phenotypic or physiological property of the organism itself
|
13 |
| Stand-alone | ||
| classical |
Epithet is a direct word from a dormant scholarly language used largely unmodified
|
13 |
| indigenous |
Name derived from a word or name of an Indigenous language or culture
|
6 |
| literary |
Named in reference to a literary work
|
2 |
| mythological |
Cross-cutting tag for names referencing mythology or fiction
|
4 |
| vernacular |
Name derived from a word of a living or non-classical language
|
3 |
| Grammatical gender | ||
| masculine |
Grammatically masculine
|
37 |
| feminine |
Grammatically feminine
|
28 |
| neuter |
Grammatically neuter
|
23 |
| gender uncertain |
Gender ambiguous or explicitly uncertain
|
0 |