interjection
hau
hau
Classical[ˈhau̯]Ecclesiastical[ˈaːu̯]
Meaning
- Expressing pain or grief; oh! ah! ow! ouch!!
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.
hau = haud, v. haud
I. init.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
hau (au)
interj. (of pain or grief), Oh! ah! T.
hau see haud.