The corpus record — Latin

tantisper

tantisper · adv

for so long a time

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Where it lives

Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
De Paenitentia 1 · 2.45/10k
Heautontimorumenos 2 · 1.82/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 1 · 1.79/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 3 · 1.72/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 2 · 1.58/10k
Aulularia 1 · 1.45/10k
Metamorphoses 7 · 1.31/10k
Casina 1 · 1.29/10k
Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k
Truculentus 1 · 1.22/10k

Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

tantis-per — Lewis & Short

tantis-per, adv.tantus,

I for so long a time, so long; in the mean time, meanwhile.

(a) With dum (class.): ego hic tantisper, dum exis, te opperiar foris, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 153: meretrix tantisper blanditur, dum illud, quod rapiat, videt, id. Men. 1, 3, 11: tantisper volo, Dum facies, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 54: ut ibi esset tantisper, dum culeus compararetur, Cic. Inv. 2, 50, 149: latendum tantisper ibidem, dum defervescat haec gratulatio, id. Fam. 9, 2, 4.—

(b) With quoad (post-class.): ut viveret tantisper, quoad fieret permutatio, Gell. 6, 4, 1: agere tantisper, quoad de servitute constet, Dig. 43, 18, 3 fin.—

(g) Absol. (class.): ego hic astabo tantisper, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 30: tantisper hic ego ad januam concessero, id. Aul. 4, 5, 6: totos dies scribo, non quo proficiam quid, sed tantisper impedior, Cic. Att. 12, 14, 3; id. Caecin. 10, 30: sed videro, quid efficiat: tantisper hoc ipsum magni aestimo, quod pollicetur, id. Tusc. 5, 7, 19: tantisper tutelā muliebri res Latina puero stetit, Liv. 1, 3, 1; 1, 22, 5.

In the wild

tantisper Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 2.30.4
tantisper Terence, Adelphi 1.1
tantisper Ovid, Ibis 639
tantisper Plautus, Truculentus prologue.pr.11
tantisper Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 p7
tantisper Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 8.3.p3

6 of 41 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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