paulisper

Univerbation of paulīs (“a few, a little”, abl. pl.) +‎ -per (“through”), originally a postpositional phrase.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pau̯ˈliːs.pɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pau̯ˈlis.per]

paulisper (not comparable)

1. (temporal) a bit, a little while, for a short time, (for only a brief period)

   Antonym: diu

   • c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Amphitryon 1.695:

     Paulisper manē.

     Wait a little.

   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.30:

     Hōc autem ūnō interfectō, intellegō hanc reī pūblicae pestem paulisper reprimī, nōn in perpetuum comprimī posse.

     However, by the death of this one [man], I know this plague upon the republic would be checked for a short time, [but] cannot be crushed forever.

• aliquantīsper
• parumper
• quantīsper
• tantīsper

• “paulisper”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “paulisper”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “paulisper”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.