"song sung before a wedding," 1590s, coined as a poem title by Edmund Spenser (based on epithalamion) from Greek pro "before" (see pro-) + thalamos "bridal chamber" (see thalamus). Sometimes Latinized as prothalamium.
Protestant
Protestantism
protestation
protester
Proteus
prothalamion
prothesis
prothonotary
protist
proto-
protocol