Pars pro toto (Latin for 'a part (taken) for the whole'; /ˌpɑːrz proʊ ˈtoʊtoʊ/; Latin: [ˈpars proː ˈtoːtoː]), is a figure of speech where the name of a...

Some of these became so powerful, that their names were used as a pars pro toto for the Low Countries, i.e., Flanders, Holland and to a lesser extent...

representative of the whole). A pars pro toto (in which a part is used to describe the whole) is the opposite of a totum pro parte. Some place names of large...

for a 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...

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...

Winning side in the Russian Civil War (1917–23) Soviet Union (1922–91), pars pro toto, the Russian SFSR being the predominant component of the union Red Ruthenia...

the Old Swiss Confederacy. The name originates as an exonym, applied pars pro toto to the troops of the Confederacy. The Swiss themselves began to adopt...

Olmec archaeological record, and in many cases, under the principle of pars pro toto, the werejaguar motif represents the werejaguar supernatural. The werejaguar...

(historically in Spanish: Flandes, the name "Flanders" was used as a pars pro toto) was the Habsburg Netherlands ruled by the Spanish branch of the Habsburgs...

the Bijlmer designation is used to refer to Amsterdam Zuidoost as a pars pro toto.[citation needed] The other neighbourhoods in Amsterdam Zuidoost are...