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Как пишется "О/одиссеева Итака": с прописной или строчной "О"?

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С прописной. Но надо сказать, что правило на этот счет не самое очевидное, и вопрос очень правомерен. Многие подобные прилагательные, образованные от имен, (и даже сами имена: "современные онегины") должны писаться со строчной буквы, тогда как в английском они почти всегда пишутся с прописной.

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  • Could you please copy the relevant portions of the text behind the link to your answer? Thanks!
    – Quassnoi ♦
    Commented Aug 9, 2016 at 20:20
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    +1, though I should also note that the rule as it is quoted in the article is quite misleading. фалеков гендекасиллаб and декартовы координаты are not capitalized. It's not the ending that matters, but whether the adjective is possessive or descriptive.
    – Quassnoi ♦
    Commented Aug 9, 2016 at 20:27
  • @Quassnoi, you are right (although it can probably be argued that your examples are 'idioms'), and if you have a better reference, I'll happily integrate it into the answer.
    – Zeus
    Commented Aug 10, 2016 at 1:21

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