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epithalamium
[ ep-uh-thuh-ley-mee-uhm ]
epithalamium
/ ˌɛpɪθəˈleɪmɪəm; ˌɛpɪθəˈlæmɪk /
noun
- a poem or song written to celebrate a marriage; nuptial ode
Derived Forms
- epithalamic, adjective
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ±ð±è·¾±Â·³Ù³ó²¹Â·±ô²¹³¾Â·¾±³¦ [ep-, uh, -th, uh, -, lam, -ik], adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of epithalamium1
Example Sentences
The New Yorker declared that Mr. Greenberg was to wedding cakes “what Henry Purcell was to wedding music or Edmund Spenser to the epithalamium†— that is, a wedding song or poem.
In fact, there’s a special term for a wedding poem: epithalamium.
Was it an epithalamium praising a forthcoming marriage or a seduction lyric drawing on the classic argument of “carpe diemâ€â€” seize the day, live for the moment?
She wrote, it is believed, at least nine books of odes, together with epithalamia, epigrams, elegies, and monodies.
By the ablest interpreters and critics of Holy Scripture, the Song of Solomon has generally been regarded as an epithalamium, or nuptial canticle.
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