In a nutshell

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The Latin phrase in nuce (German: 'in a nut') means 'summarized', 'in a short form', 'compressed'.

The phrase is said to go back to Pliny maior . In his encyclopedic Naturalis historia, he mentions a report by Cicero , according to which a manuscript of Homer's Iliad had space in a nutshell: “in nuce inclusam Iliadem Homeri carmen in membrana scriptum tradit Cicero”.

In the Anglo-Saxon language area there is the variant "in a nutshell" (German: 'in a nut shell').

Book title

  • Christoph Weigel : Thorough narration of the most merciful world stories of all time: From the beginning of the world bit on the present, so in the historical copper plates Der Gedächtnüß-Helflichen Bilder-Lust, Other The world in a nut (!) Titled, appear, and For special pleasure and amusement, both for the student youth and for other lovers of their histories, to grasp them properly, and to keep them easy according to the year calculation, In pleasant invention and comfortable arrangement . Christoph Weigel's widow, Nuremberg 1726 ( on Google Books ).
  • Johann Colmar: The world in a nut, or Kurtzer term of the most remarkable world history, bit continued on the current year, explained by question and answer, and with a correct sequence of all rulers of the so-called four monarchies, as well as those before, beneath and beside it, from the beginning of the world, ruled, increased, bit by this time . C. Weigel, Wittib's parents, Nuremberg 1730.
  • Johann D. Köhler: SF Iliad in nuce or Geographical World in a nut briefly set in two bowls . Weigel, Nuremberg (between 1716 and 1725).
  • Johann Georg Hamann : Aesthetica in nuce (1762). In: Hamann: Socratic Memories. Aesthetica in nuce. With a comment by Sven-Aage Jørgensen. Reclam, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-15-000926-X , pp. 75-147.
  • Richard Friedenthal : The world in a nutshell. Novel . Piper, Munich 1956.
  • Stephen Hawking: The Universe in a Nutshell . 2001 (German edition: The universe in a nutshell . Translated by Hainer Kober . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-455-09345-0 ).

Web links

Wiktionary: in nuce  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Lautenbach: Latin-German: Zitaten-Lexikon. References. LIT, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8258-5652-6 , p. 343.
  2. ↑ Naturalis historia , 7, 21, 85; Wikisource digitized .