LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
adverb

aliquantīsper

aliquantīsper (not comparable)

Meaning

  1. not comparablefor a moderate period of time; for a while, for a time, for some time
    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...c. 170 BCE, Caecilius Statius, Fallacia 511, 27

ălĭquantisper,
I. adv. temp. [aliquantus-per; analog. to paulisper], for a moderate period of time (neither too long nor too short), for a while, for a time, for some time (ante-class. and post-Aug.): concedere aliquantisper hinc mihi intro libet, * Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 158: Quor non ludo hunc aliquantisper? Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 5: concedas aliquo ab ore eorum aliquantisper, id. Heaut. 3, 3, 11: si illi egestate aliquantisper jacti forent, Caecil. ap. Non. 511, 27; Flor. 2, 18, 14: sed ille simulato timore diu continuit se, et insultare Parthos aliquantisper passus est, Just. 42, 4, 8; so id. 1, 8, 3.

Origins

Univerbation of aliquantīs (“of some length or another”, abl. pl.) + -per (“through”), originally a postpositional phrase.

Quick answers

What does aliquantīsper mean in Latin?
aliquantīsper, a adverb, means “for a moderate period of time; for a while, for a time, for some time”.