köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *kártas Proto-Slavic *kõrtъ Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Slavic *-kъ Proto-Slavic *-ъkъ Proto-Slavic *-ъkъ Proto-Slavic *kortъ̀kъ Old Polish krótki Polish krótki Proto-Slavic *-o Old Polish -o Polish -o Polish krótko From krótki + -o.
in a nutshell; briefly stated · in the embryonic phase; said of something which is just developing or being developed
köken: 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).
[…] adeoque sola eruendas ratione, in nuce, quod dicitur, aut velut in tabula depictas, simul exhibeam.
köken: Inherited from Old Catalan viats, vivats, ivaç, from Latin vīvācius, comparative form of vīvāciter (“vigorously”). Compare obsolete Italian avaccio (“soon”).