Sense

1. a cry of pain or grief

Examples

• ἀτταταῖ ἀτταταῖ στυγερὰ τάδε γε κρυερὰ πάθεα· (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode, strophe1)
• ἀτταταῖ ἀτταταῖ τῶν τιτθίων, ὡσ σκληρὰ καὶ κυδώνια. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode, antistrophe1)
• ἀτταταῖ ἰατταταῖ. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue, iambics 2:25)

Similar forms

• ἀτταταῖ (11)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.