prothalamion

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A song or poem in honour of a bride and bridegroom about to be married. literary
    — Zauq then wrote his own prothalamion in which the last verse (in the same vein as Ghalib's) challenged the ability of those who made a claim to be poets to equal his writing of a sehra. Zauq's prothalamion was given very wide publicity by the professional singers in the palace, and the next day it was published in the local newspaper.

词形变化

prothalamions plural prothalamia plural prothalamium alternative

词源

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