The corpus record — Latin

hui

hui · interj

hah! ho! oh!

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Where it lives

Ludus Septem Sapientum 1 · 7.58/10k
Phormio 4 · 3.69/10k
Heautontimorumenos 4 · 3.64/10k
Adelphi 3 · 3.03/10k
Eunuchus 3 · 2.77/10k
Persa 1 · 1.27/10k
Truculentus 1 · 1.22/10k
Andria 1 · 1.02/10k
Rudens 1 · 0.84/10k
Letters to Atticus 6 · 0.49/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 2 · 0.17/10k

What it meant

hui — Lewis & Short

hui, interj., an exclamation of astonishment or admiration,

I hah! ho! oh! hui, homunculi quanti estis, Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 65: hui, dixti pulchre! Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 72: triginta? hui, percara est! id. ib. 3, 3, 25: hui, tam cito? ridiculum, id. And. 3, 1, 16: Ch. Prorsum nihil intelligo. Sy. Hui, tardus est! id. Heaut. 4, 5, 28: hui, quantam fenestram ad nequitiam patefeceris! id. ib. 3, 1, 71: videbam sermones: Hui! fratrem reliquit? Cic. Att. 6, 6, 3; 5, 11, 1: hui quam diu de nugis! id. ib. 13, 21, 5; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 15, 2.

In the wild

6 of 27 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. hui (scan p. 317; entry #4998). Root candidates: *hé-.

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