epithalamion
/ɛpɪθəˈleɪmɪən/
epithalamion is the alternative form of epithalamium.
Meaning of epithalamium
Noun
epithalamium (plural epithalamiums or epithalamia)
- 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
- 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
Forms of epithalamion
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Questions about epithalamion
- What is epithalamion the alternative form of?
- Epithalamion is the alternative form of epithalamium.
- How do you pronounce epithalamion?
- Epithalamion is pronounced /ɛpɪθəˈleɪmɪən/.
Words near epithalamion in the dictionary
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