adverb
topper
topper (not comparable)
Classical[ˈtɔp.pɛr]Ecclesiastical[ˈtɔp.per]
Meaning
- Old Latinnot comparablequickly
namque nūllum pejus / mācerat hūmānum quamde mare saevom. / vīrēs quoi sunt magnae topper cōnfringent / importūnae undae. (please add an English translation of this quotation)This roughly translates 8.138-139 of Homer's Odyssey: οὐ γὰρ ἐγώ γέ τί φημι κακώτερον ἄλλο θαλάσσης ἄνδρα γε συγχεῦαι, εἰ καὶ μάλα καρτερὸς εἴη.
3rd century BCE, Livius Andronicus, Odusia book 8 (Saturnian verse)topper fortūnae commūtantur hominibus.
3rd-2nd century BCE, anonymous, Carmen Nelei
topper, adv. contr. from toto opere,
I. with all diligence, speedily, forthwith (anteclass.; cf.:
ab ultimis et jam oblitteratis repetita temporibus, qualia sunt topper et antigerio, etc., Quint. 1, 6, 40): topper citi ad aedes venimus Circae, Pac. ap. Fest. p. 352 Müll.; so Naev., Enn., Att., Cael. ib.Origins
From *tod (“that”), and per. Compare semper, paulīsper, parumper, nūper.