The corpus record — Latin

ha

ha · interj

thank heavens!

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Where it lives

Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Phormio 8 · 7.38/10k
Heautontimorumenos 5 · 4.55/10k
Hecyra 4 · 4.44/10k
Parentalia 1 · 3.85/10k
Eunuchus 4 · 3.69/10k
Epigrammata 10 · 1.78/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Adelphi 1 · 1.01/10k
Pseudolus 1 · 0.9/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 2 · 0.35/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. ha! — Lewis & Short

ha!interj.

I Ha hae or hahae, an exclamation of joy, thank heavens! hahae, nunc demum mi animus in tuto locost, Plaut. Ps. 4, 5, 1.—

II Ha ha he, or in one word, hahahe, an exclamation of laughter or derision, ha! ha! ha! Chr. Ha, ha, he! Me. Quid risisti? Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 13; Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 36; Ter. And. 4, 4, 15; id. Eun. 3, 1, 36; 3, 2, 44; id. Hec. 5, 4, 22; id. Phorm. 2, 3, 64: hahahe, jam teneo, quid sit, Plaut. Poen. 3, 5, 23.

2. hà — Walde–Hofmann

hà ,Ausruf der Erleichterung* u. dgl. (CE. 2139, 1. Coripp. Joh. 2, 112): vl. Kurzform von hahalhae) (s. d.); z. T. scheint auch eine Nebenform von aha vorzuliegen, so Vulg. Ezech. 4, 14 (Amiat.) ha ha ha (vgl. Ezech. 20, 49 1m gleichen Zsshang aha). haba s. faba. habena s. habeo. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. hà, p. 662]

In the wild

have Terence, Adelphi front.subject_2
Have Martial, Epigrammata 9.6.2
Have Martial, Epigrammata 4.78.4
have Terence, Heautontimorumenos front.subject_3
have Terence, Hecyra front.subject_1
have Martial, Epigrammata 7.39.2

6 of 43 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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