The corpus record — Latin

Oh

Oh · interj

oh! O! ah!

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Where it lives

Captivi 4 · 4.62/10k
Phormio 5 · 4.61/10k
Casina 3 · 3.86/10k
Persa 3 · 3.82/10k
Epidicus 2 · 3.07/10k
Adelphi 3 · 3.03/10k
Eunuchus 2 · 1.84/10k
Heautontimorumenos 2 · 1.82/10k
Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k
Truculentus 1 · 1.22/10k
Menaechmi 1 · 1.05/10k
Mostellaria 1 · 1.04/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

oh — Lewis & Short

oh, interj., an expression for the most various emotions of the mind—for surprise, both joyful and painful; for great pleasure or sorrow; for earnest wishing, admiration, aversion, etc.—

I oh! O! ah! oh, tibi ego ut credam, furcifer? Ter. And. 3, 5, 12: oh, iniquus es, id. Heaut. 5, 3, 8: oh perii! Plaut. Cas. 2, 3, 19: oh, probus homo sum, id. Most. 1, 3, 86.—Repeated, oh, oh, oh, as an exclamation of lamentation, Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 6: oh, oh, as an exclamation of exultation, id. Most. 1, 4, 12 (al. oh, al. ohoho).

In the wild

6 of 35 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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