Totum pro parte

Totum pro parte ( Latin ) meanstranslatedinto German : 'The whole (stands) for a part'.

This is both a special form of metonymy and synecdoche . Therefore the totum pro parte is a rhetorical figure from the group of the tropics .

The counterpart of this figure is the case of the pars pro toto (one part describes the whole).

Examples

China wins gold medal in 110m hurdles . → Only the hurdler wins the medal, not the whole nation.
Germany wins against England with 3-0 goals . → Not all nations win or lose, only the German national soccer team wins against the English .
Germany voted . → Not all of Germany took part in the election, only part of the eligible population.
Away with chemistry! → Products of the chemical industry , not chemistry as such, which cannot be removed as a natural science.
ARD for Das Erste → In addition to the television program “Das Erste”, ARD also organizes the television programs arte , children's channel , 3sat and some smaller sideprogramsalone.
WDR for WDR TV → In addition to the TV program “WDR TV”, WDR also organizes radio programs for North Rhine-Westphalia . (correspondingly for other state broadcasters, third party programs and federal states).
America for the United States (USA) → The USA is only part of the American double continent.
Europe for the European Union (EU) → The EU is only part of Europe.
The police arrested the perpetrator. → One or more police officers arrested him, not the entire police.
If you talk about the Internet , although you mean a certain website on the World Wide Web .
We are Pope! → Not all Germans, as the headline of the Bild newspaper announced in April 2005, but only Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as Benedict XVI.