English Explanatory Dictionary

prothalamion

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A song or poem in honour of a bride and bridegroom about to be married.

Word forms

prothalamion prothalamions prothalamia prothalamium

Etymology

After Prothalamion, title of a 16th-century poem by Edmund Spenser, from Ancient Greek πρό (pró, “for”) + thalamion, as in epithalamion.

Synonyms

epithalamium
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