epithalamium

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A song or poem celebrating a marriage.
    — Softly she laughed and sighed, and swift her glances flew. She shook her heavy tresses, and their perfume filled the place; she struck her little sandalled foot upon the floor, and hummed a snatch of some old Greek epithalamium.
  2. A song in praise of the bride or bridegroom
    — The Caves of Ajanta, the medieval Courts of Love, the epithalamia of the erotic poets [...] all testify to the glorification of manhood, the supremacy of the sex motif.

词形变化

epithalamiums plural epithalamia plural epithalamion alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
epithalamic

词源

Learned borrowing from Latin epithalamium, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπιθαλάμιον (epithalámion, “bridal song”), neuter form of ἐπιθαλάμιος (epithalámios), from ἐπί (epí, “upon”) + θάλαμος (thálamos, “inner chamber, wedding chamber”).
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