mu

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

mu, interj., = μῦ, a slight sound made with the closed lips (ante-class.): neque, ut aiunt, mu facere audent,

I to mutter, make a muttering , Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 101 Müll. ( Enn. p. 175, n. 10 Vahl.): nec mu facere audet, Lucil. ap. Charis. p. 213 P.: nec dico nec facio mu, Enn. ap. Don. ad Ter. And. 505 ( Enn. p. 175, n. 8 Vahl.; but not in Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 102, v. Ritschl ad h. l.).—*

II A sound of lamentation: mul perii hercle: Afer est, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Charis. p. 213 P.