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Latin
Etymology
From in + nuce, the ablative singular of nux (“nut”): literally, “in a nut”. Derived from an anecdote in Pliny the Elder, who ascribes to Cicero the claim that the whole Iliad was once written on parchment and enclosed within a nutshell (Naturalis Historia 7.21.85).
Pronunciation
Adverb
in nuce (not comparable) (New Latin)
- in a nutshell; briefly stated
1731, Jakob Wilde, Sueciæ Historia Pragmatica Quæ vulgò Jus Publicum dicitur , page 5:[…] adeoque sola eruendas ratione, in nuce, quod dicitur, aut velut in tabula depictas, simul exhibeam.- let me present, at the same time, those things that are to be unearthed by reason alone, in a nutshell, as it is said, or as if depicted in an image.
- in the embryonic phase; said of something which is just developing or being developed