prothalamion

== English == === Alternative forms === prothalamium === Etymology === After Prothalamion, title of a 16th-century poem by Edmund Spenser, from Ancient Greek πρό (pró, “for”) + thalamion, as in epithalamion. === Noun === prothalamion (plural prothalamions or prothalamia) (literary) A song or poem in honour of a bride and bridegroom about to be married. Synonym: epithalamium === Further reading === “prothalamium”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.