The corpus record — Latin

eu

eu · interj

well! well done! bravo!

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Menaechmi 7 · 7.37/10k
Miles Gloriosus 6 · 4.73/10k
Persa 3 · 3.82/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
Mostellaria 3 · 3.12/10k
Phormio 3 · 2.77/10k
Poenulus 3 · 2.72/10k
Truculentus 2 · 2.44/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 12 · 2.12/10k
Controversiae 13 · 1.97/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 9 · 1.8/10k
Stichus 1 · 1.61/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. eu — Lewis & Short

eu, interj., = eu)=,

I well! well done! bravo! an exclamation of joy or approbation, Plaut. Most. 1, 4, 26; Ter. Phorm. 3, 1, 14; Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 10; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 74; Hor. A. P. 328.—Esp.: Eu Hercle! Plaut. Men. 5, 1, 31; id. Rud. 3, 5, 41; id. Most. 3, 1, 58 al. Cf. Hand, Turs. II. p. 609 sq.; and see euge.

2. eu — Walde–Hofmann

eu (dücà : got. tiuha, ürö: eüw), 0% (clünis an. hlaun). ü (durch ; oder « bezeichneter Mittellaut) — idg. u nach Z vor La- — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. eu, p. 8]

Where it came from

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

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.