tatae — Lewis & Short
tatae, interj., an exclamation of surprise,
I so! the deuce! Sa. Fac tu hoc modo. St. At tu hoc modo. Sa. Babae! St. Tatae! Sa. Papae! St. Pax! Plaut. Stich. 5, 5, 31; cf. tat.
The corpus record — Latin
Tataé
Tataé · interj
so! the deuce! Sa
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Stichus 1 · 1.61/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- Tataé Plautus, Stichus 5.7
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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.