tantisper Latin · revision 34106

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la tantus}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''tantīsper''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|tantus|-per|t1=so great|t2=through, for]],^(OLD 2012) originally a phrase of the ablative plural ⟨tantīs⟩ with ⟨-per⟩ placed after it.^(Wiktionary) De Vaan explains the suffix ⟨-per⟩, which marks duration or number of times, as [[m|la|per|t=through]] used as a postposition, a use confirmed by the Sabellic languages;^(de Vaan 2008) it also forms [[m|la|paulīsper]], [[m|la|parumper]] and [[m|la|aliquantīsper]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and the OLD find it first in Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) who has ''meretrīx tantisper blanditur, dum illud quod rapiat videt'', “a courtesan flatters just as long as she sees something to grab”.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ With ''dum'' or ''quoad'' it means for just so long as:^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Terence, Cato, Cicero, Livy, Fronto and Gellius use it so,^(OLD 2012) and Ulpian has it with ''quoad''.^(OLD 2012) Alone it means for the meantime, for the present:^(OLD 2012) Terence writes of letting a conger eel play in the water for a while,^(Conte 2010) and Cicero, Livy, Ovid, Seneca, Gaius and Apuleius use it in the same way.^(OLD 2012) In Ecclesiastical Latin it means meanwhile,^(Stelten 1995) and in Bede it is for so long a time, all the time.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it with ''dum'' and in the sense “for the present”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it in both senses.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it in his letters and the ''Tusculan Disputations''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius uses it in the sense “for the time being”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # (with ''dum'', ''quoad'') For such a time (as), for just so long (as).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

+ # For the [[m|en|meantime]], for the present; all the time, [[m|en|meanwhile]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tantus]]

+ * [[paulīsper]]

+ * [[parumper]]

+ * [[aliquantīsper]]

+ * [[quantīsper]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}