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epithalamia

epithalamia is the plural of epithalamium.

Meaning of epithalamium

Noun

epithalamium (plural epithalamiums or epithalamia)

  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.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
  2. (Ancient Greece) 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.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page iii

Questions about epithalamia

What is epithalamia the plural of?
Epithalamia is the plural of epithalamium.

Words near epithalamia in the dictionary

  1. epitetrasulfide
  2. epitetrasulfides
  3. epitext
  4. epitexts
  5. epitextual
  6. epithalamia
  7. epithalamial
  8. epithalamiast
  9. epithalamiasts
  10. epithalamic
  11. epithalamies

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