The corpus record — Latin

ah

ah · interj

ah! alas! ha! ah me!

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Where it lives

Eclogues 6 · 13.22/10k
Andria 11 · 11.17/10k
Adelphi 11 · 11.11/10k
Carmina 9 · 6.99/10k
Hecyra 6 · 6.66/10k
Eunuchus 7 · 6.46/10k
Phormio 7 · 6.46/10k
Heautontimorumenos 7 · 6.37/10k
Persa 4 · 5.09/10k
Elegiae 12 · 4.74/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Bacchides 4 · 4.05/10k

Densest 12 of 33 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

āh — Lewis & Short

āh or ā (v. Neue, Formenl. II. 812), interj.

[acc. to Prisc. 570 P. contract. from aha],

I ah! alas! ha! ah me! an exclamation.

I Of pain or grief, Gr. ai)/, ai)/: ah, nescis quam doleam, Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 61; Verg. E. 1, 15. —

II Of entreaty to avert an evil: ah! noli, do not, I pray! Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 22. —

III Of indignation or reproach: ah stulte, Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 6: ah, rogitas? id. And. 5, 1, 9; 3, 1, 11.—

IV Of admonition: ah, ne me obsecra, Ter. And. 3, 3, 11: ah desine, id. ib. 5, 6, 8.—

V Of consolation: quid? ah volet, certo scio, Ter. Eun. 5, 2, 50.—

VI Of raillery or joy, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 39.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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