in nuce

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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)

  1. 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.
  2. in the embryonic phase; said of something which is just developing or being developed