in nuce
Latin
Etymology
From in + nuce, the ablative singular of nux (“nut”): literally, “in a nut”.
Adverb
in nuce (not comparable)
- in a nutshell; briefly stated
- c. 77 [1669], Pliny the Elder, translated by Harris Rackham, William Henry Samuel Jones, David Edward Eichholz, Naturalis Historia [Natural History], book 7, published 1938:
- in nuce inclusam Iliadem Homeri carmem in membrana scriptum tradit Cicero.
- Cicero records that a parchment copy of Homer's poem The Iliad was enclosed in a nutshell.
- in the embryonic phase; said of something which is just developing or being developed