adverb
nūper
nūper (comparative nūperius, superlative nūperrimē)
Classical[ˈnuː.pɛr]Ecclesiastical[ˈnuː.per]
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Meaning
- newly, lately, recently, not long ago
Nūper erat dea facta [...]
Not long after she was deified … (Ovid is explaining myths which were part of the ancient festival honoring Anna Perenna, who as an elderly woman had become a goddess.)8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 3.677
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
paulō ante hoc tempusnūper — in IVLIANVS I: Gallia, ch. 3
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Nuper · Modo
Nuper (νέον, πέρι) means several days, months, also, years since, lately, like νεωστί; whereas modo, a few moments since, just now, like ἄρτι. Cic. Verr. iv. 3, 6. Nuper homines nobiles ejusmodi; sed quid dico nuper? imo vero modo ac plane paulo ante vidimus. Tusc. i. 24. Quanta memoria fuit nuper Charmadas! quanta qui modo fuit Scepsius Metrodorus!
nūper, adv. for novum-per; cf. semper,
I. newly, lately, recently, not long ago.
I. Lit.:
quamquam haec inter nos nuper notitia admodumst, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 1 Flect. Ussing. (al. nupera): nuper, et quid dico nuper? immo vero modo, ac plane paulo ante vidimus, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 3, § 6; Verg. E. 2, 25; 3, 2; 99; 5, 14 al.: de quo sum nuper tecum locutus, Cic. Att. 14, 7, 2; 13, 29: is, qui nuper Romae fuit, id. de Or 1, 19, 85: fac, quod fecisti nuper in curiā, id. Lig. 12, 37; id. Div. in Caecil. 20, 64: miseraeque nuper virgines nuptae, Hor. C. 2, 8, 22.—Followed by cum, Cic. de Or. 3, 61, 229; Liv. 28, 42, 14.—Sup.: ab eo quod ille nuperrime dixerit, Cic. Inv. 1, 17, 24: quoniam nuperrime dictum facillime memoriae mandatur, Auct. Her. 3, 10, 18.— 2. Esp.:
nunc nuper, a little while ago, just now, Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 45; Ter. Eun. prooem. 9; Symm. Ep. 2, 3; App. M. 9, 16, p. 224.—II. Transf., recently, in modern times:
neque ante philosophiam patefactam, quae nuper inventa est, Cic. Div. 1, 39, 86: quid ea. quae nuper, id est paucis ante saeculis, reperta sunt, id. N. D. 2, 50, 126; Liv. 4, 30, 14; of a time three years back, Cic. Sull. 32, 89; four years back, Caes. B. G. 1, 6.—B. Formerly, once:
vixi puellis nuper idoneus ... Nunc, etc., Hor. C. 3, 26, 1: heros regali conspectus in auro, id. A. P. 227.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
nūper adv. with sup. nūperrimē
1 NV-, newly, lately, recently, freshly, not long ago, just : haec inter nos nuper notitia admodumst, T.: nuper me in litore vidi, V.: quid enim nuper tu ipse locutus es: in quo (terrore) nuper fuimus, cum, etc., L.: Tam nuper picti pavones . . . Quam tu nuper eras, etc., as freshly , O.: nunc nuper, just now , T.: quod ille nuperrime dixerit.— Recently, not long since, lately : Allobroges, qui nuper pacati erant, Cs.: neque ante philosophiam patefactam, quae nuper inventa est: heros conspectus in auro nuper, H.
Origins
From the root of num and per. See also Latin semper.