Holonymy
Holonymy (from ancient Greek ὅλος holos "whole, complete") is a term from linguistics and describes the word of a "part-of-relationship" between words, which includes the other: Is a word A a holonym of another word B , the word B denotes part of what is meant by A.
Example of holonymy: the term face includes nose . Thus face is a holonym of nose .
The inversion of this relation is called meronymy .
literature
- Helmut Glück (Ed.), With the collaboration of Friederike Schmöe : Metzler Lexikon Sprache. 3rd, revised edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2005, ISBN 3-476-02056-8 (article: “Meronymie”).