Namely, 125

NAMELY

eponyms (EP-uh-nimz)

words based on or derived from a person's name.

First Known Use: mid-19^th century

“What’s in a Name?”

Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, 2.2­

125: stentorian: loud, booming (from Stentor, a herald of the Greek forces during the Trojan War whose voice, according to Homer, was as powerful and fifty voices of other men; earliest known use, 1605)

He seemed to me Victorian—

So male and so stentorian.

He man-splained everything to her—

She took it (with a silent “grrrrr!”).

But one day she had had enough—

She just walked out—took all her stuff

And much of his. And so he screamed

How he lost all that he’d dreamed

Of having since he was a child.

Oh, her departure drove him wild!

So, dudes, just quiet down a bit—

And listen. You can learn from it!