• Totum pro parte is Latin for "the whole for a part"; it refers to a kind of metonymy. The plural is tota pro partibus, "wholes for parts". In context of...
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  • refer both to pars pro toto and its inverse: Totum pro parte (Latin for 'the whole for a part'). In the context of language, pars pro toto means that something...
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    part of something is used to refer to the whole (pars pro toto), or vice versa (totum pro parte). The term is derived from Ancient Greek συνεκδοχή...
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  • of a whole entity being used to refer to a part of it (totum pro parte), and vice versa (pars pro toto) American (word) for the United States/Americas/North...
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    governmental organizations. The name "The Hague" is commonly used as a totum pro parte to refer to either of the international courts that reside in the city...
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    " In practice, in North America the name 'solitaire' is often used totum pro parte to refer to single-player card games, although sometimes the term 'card...
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    List of metonyms Meronymy Newspeak Pars pro toto Simile Slang Sobriquet Social stereotype Synecdoche Totum pro parte "metonymy". Cambridge University Press...
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  • figure of speech of two forms: Pars pro toto using the word for a part by way of referring to the whole Totum pro parte using the word for the whole by way...
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    "businessmen"), "boots" (for "soldiers", a pars pro toto), and "America" (for "the United States of America", "totum pro parte"). Figure of speech Glossary of rhetorical...
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  • one of its parts (or vice versa): Pars pro toto, where the part is used to refer to the whole. Totum pro parte, where the whole is used to refer to a...
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    The name "A Famosa" is thus a unique case of a pars pro toto which then became a totum pro parte over the course of time. In 1511, a Portuguese fleet...
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  • Hyphenated Americans Names of the United States Naming of the Americas Totum pro parte Japanese: "U.S. citizen" is amerika-jin (アメリカ人) Russian: "U.S. citizen"...
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    names present day Indonesia and several other surrounding states (as totum pro parte). They are mostly exonyms. Eighth-century Arab geographers identified...
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    termed Dom in German – a synecdoche for all collegiate churches used totum pro parte also for cathedrals -, and thus traditionally translated as cathedral...
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  • figure of speech of two forms: Pars pro toto using the word for a part by way of referring to the whole Totum pro parte using the word for the whole by way...
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    emancipation of Bessarabians—now commonly referred to as "Moldavians", totum pro parte. In defining their identity during spring 1917, poet-activist Alexei...
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  • the Goethe House in Frankfurt upon Main. Das Stift is also used – totum pro parte – as the expression for the collegial body of persons (originally canons...
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    sites, but technically speaking this is a misnomer (and a case of totum pro parte), as the sites never had Kőbánya as a formal name in any manner, and...
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    Op. 118, No. 6, Intermezzo in E-flat minor (1893) Antoine Brumel - Missa pro defunctis (before 1519) Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco – 24 Caprichos de Goya...
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    ignorante tres pontes celeriter construxit et misso nuntio ad imperatorem totum exercitum revocavit. Quo viso barbari et ipsi obviare legionibus contendunt...
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    resurget creatura, judicanti responsura. Liber scriptus proferetur, in quo totum continetur, unde mundus judicetur. Judex ergo cum sedebit, quidquid latet...
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  • Expresses a change in the speaker. Horace, Odes 4/1:3. non teneas aurum totum quod splendet ut aurum Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold Also...
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  • "annus horribilis". Webster's Dictionary. Retrieved 17 March 2018. "apologia pro vita sua". Merriam-Webster. The Arma Christi in Medieval and Early Modern...
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  • generally used to teach first year law students. qui tam pro domino rege quam pro se ipso in hac parte sequitur he who brings an action for the king as well...
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  • alterīus or by aliēnus 'of another'); ūnus, ūna, ūnum 'one'; tōtus, tōta, tōtum 'whole'; alter, altera, alterum 'other [of two]'. Third-declension adjectives...
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    monachis de Wodency, in cantredo de Wodeney O’Cathelan, et Wodency O’Flian, totum thend, sive fundum de Wodency Fidenwide, in quo villa de Clonfene sita est...
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  • can also introduce an alternative: quod sī maior is tumor est, commodius tōtum excīditur (Celsus) 'if, however, the tumor is a large one, it is better...
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  • Origenis Hexaplorum Quae Supersunt, Sive Veterum Interpretum Graecorum in Totum Vetus Testamentum Fragmenta (in Latin). Vol. Tomus I. Oxford: Clarendon...
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    Antonio Canova, making valuable contributions as his secretary and fac-totum to the promotion of his artistic career. He and Canova were responsible...
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  • possible translation in these sentences is "now that": credēbam esse facile; tōtum est aliud posteā quam sum ā tē dīiūnctior (Cicero) "I used to believe that...
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