(adverb) : nūper, for novum-per; cf. semper
* Newly, lately, recently, not long ago.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* Formerly, once: vixi puellis nuper idoneus ... Nunc, etc.,Hor. C. 3, 26, 1: heros regali conspectus in auro,id. A. P. 227.