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prothalamium

prothalamium is the alternative form of prothalamion.

Meaning of prothalamion

Noun

prothalamion (plural prothalamions or prothalamia)

  1. (literary) A song or poem in honour of a bride and bridegroom about to be married.
    • 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...2000, Pavan K. Varma, Ghalib: The Man, The Times, Penguin UK, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    epithalamium

Forms of prothalamium

pluralprothalamiums
pluralprothalamia

Questions about prothalamium

What is prothalamium the alternative form of?
Prothalamium is the alternative form of prothalamion.

Words near prothalamium in the dictionary

  1. Proth primes
  2. Proth's test
  3. prothalamia
  4. prothalamion
  5. prothalamions
  6. prothalamium
  7. prothalamiums
  8. prothalli
  9. prothallia
  10. prothallial
  11. prothalliform

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