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Latin
Etymology
Univerbation of aliquantīs (“of some length or another”, abl. pl.) + -per (“through”), originally a postpositional phrase.
Adverb
aliquantīsper (not comparable)
- for a moderate period of time; for a while, for a time, for some time
~170 BCE,
Caecilius Statius,
Fallacia 511, 27:
- Nonius: Nam si illi, postquam rem paternam amiserant, egestate aliquantisper iactati forent...
- Nonius: For if they were to be flung about for a while by want after they had squandered their heritage...
References
- “aliquantisper”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aliquantisper”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aliquantisper in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.