pars pro toto
Latin
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Bread to mean food in general. |
Etymology
[edit]From pars (“part”) + prō (“for”) + tōtō, ablative singular of tōtus (“whole, entire”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /pars proː ˈtoː.toː/, [pärs̠ proː ˈt̪oːt̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pars pro ˈto.to/, [pärs prɔː ˈt̪ɔːt̪o]
Noun
[edit]pars prō tōtō f sg (genitive partis prō tōtō); third declension
- A type of metonymy in which an entity (person, object) is referred to by a (conspicuous) part, for the whole, e.g. a country by its capital.
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally -ī) with an indeclinable portion, singular only.
| singular | |
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| nominative | pars prō tōtō |
| genitive | partis prō tōtō |
| dative | partī prō tōtō |
| accusative | partem prō tōtō |
| ablative | parte prō tōtō partī prō tōtō |
| vocative | pars prō tōtō |