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There are some differences between the musical notation of the Dominican Gradual, Vesperal and Antiphonary and the corresponding books of the Roman Rite as reformed by Pope Pius X. The Dominican chant was faithfully copied from the 13th-century manuscripts, which were in turn derived indirectly from the Gregorian Sacramentary. [3]
Das Stift is also used – totum pro parte – as the expression for the collegial body of persons (originally canons or canonesses) who administered it and for the building (compound) they used to meet or live in. [1] If the Stift served or serves to maintain the specific college of a cathedral (a so-called cathedral chapter) then the building ...
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 language, it means something is named after something of which it is only a part (or only a limited characteristic, not necessarily representative of the whole).
Pars pro toto (Latin for 'a part (taken) for the whole'; / ˌ p ɑːr z p r oʊ ˈ t oʊ t oʊ /; [1] Latin: [ˈpars proː ˈtoːtoː]), [2] is a figure of speech where the name of a portion of an object, place, or concept is used or taken to represent its entirety.
quilibet potest renunciare juri pro se inducto: anyone may renounce a law introduced for their own benefit: Used in classical law to differentiate law imposed by the state for the benefit of a person in general, but by the state on behalf of them, and one imposed specifically that that person ought to have a say in whether the law is implemented.
Cicero pro domo sua Cicero's speech in 57 BC to regain his confiscated house: Said of someone who pleads cases for their own benefit; see List of Latin phrases (P) § pro domo: circa (c.) or (ca.) around: In the sense of "approximately" or "about". Usually used of a date. circulus in probando: circle made in testing [a premise] Circular reasoning.
non bene pro toto libertas venditur auro: liberty is not well sold for all the gold: Motto of Republic of Ragusa, inscribed over the gates of St. Lawrence Fortress. From Gualterus Anglicus's version of Aesop's fable "The Dog and the Wolf". non bis in idem: not twice in the same thing: A legal principle forbidding double jeopardy.
Totus tuus is a Latin greeting which was routinely used [when?] to sign off letters written in Latin, meaning "all yours", often abbreviated as "t.t." (a variation was ex asse tuus).