ălĭquantisper, 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. 639: concedas aliquo ab ore eorum aliquantisper, id. Heaut. 572: 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.