The corpus record — Latin

Vah

Vah · interj

ah! oh!

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Where it lives

Adelphi 8 · 8.08/10k
Heautontimorumenos 7 · 6.37/10k
Mostellaria 4 · 4.16/10k
Casina 3 · 3.86/10k
Curculio 2 · 3.24/10k
Aulularia 2 · 2.9/10k
Persa 2 · 2.54/10k
Asinaria 2 · 2.48/10k
Miles Gloriosus 3 · 2.37/10k
Andria 2 · 2.03/10k
Pseudolus 2 · 1.81/10k
Truculentus 1 · 1.22/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

vah — Lewis & Short

vah (fuller form vaha, interj., = Gr. ou)a/, ou)a=; an exclamation of astonishment, joy, anger, etc.,

Plaut. Cas. 4, 4, 25; Afran. ap. Charis. p. 187 P.),

I ah! oh! vah! solus hic homo'st, qui sciat divinitus, Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 33; 2, 3, 79; id. Trin. 5, 2, 13 (ante-class. and late Lat.); id. Most. 1, 3, 99: vah! Homo amicus nobis jam inde a puero, Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 86: vah consilium callidum! id. And. 3, 4, 10; cf.: cum dolentes dicimus heu! vel cum delectamur vah dicimus, Aug. Tract. in Joan. 51: vah! apage te a me, Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 32; Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 17; 4, 2, 39; id. Eun. 4, 5, 4: vah! perii! hoc malum integrascit, id. And. 4, 2, 5; id. Heaut. 2, 3, 12; Vulg. Job, 39, 25; id. Matt. 27, 40.

In the wild

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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