The corpus record — Latin

hau

hau · interj

Oh! ah!

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Where it lives

Persa 8 · 10.18/10k
Poenulus 10 · 9.07/10k
Pseudolus 10 · 9.04/10k
Stichus 5 · 8.05/10k
Mostellaria 7 · 7.27/10k
Truculentus 4 · 4.88/10k
Miles Gloriosus 5 · 3.94/10k
Casina 3 · 3.86/10k
Mercator 3 · 3.5/10k
Epidicus 2 · 3.07/10k
Trinummus 3 · 3.05/10k
Cistellaria 1 · 1.91/10k

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

What it meant

1. hau — Lewis & Short

hau (also au), interj., an exclamation of pain or grief,

I Oh! ah! au, nullan tibi lingua'st? Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 104; id. Cist. 3, 15; Ter. And. 4, 4, 12; 42; id. Eun. 4, 3, 14; id. Heaut. 5, 3, 13; id. Ad. 3, 2, 38; id. Phorm. 5, 1, 27 et saep.

2. hau — Lewis & Short

hau = haud, v. haud

I init.

In the wild

6 of 66 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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