thălămus (noun M) = θάλαμος,:
* An inner room, chamber, apartment (poet.).
* Lit
* In gen.: Pars secreta domus ... Tres habuit thalamos, quorum tu, Pandrose, dextrum, Aglauros laevum, medium possederat Herse,Ov. M. 2, 738: ferreique Eumenidum thalami,Verg. A. 6, 280; cf.: delubra ei gemina, quae vocant thalamos,Plin. 8, 46, 71, § 185; and of bees: ubi jam thalamis se conposuere,Verg. G. 4, 189.
* Transf.
* A marriage - bed, bridal-bed (cf.: lectus, conjugium, conubium),Prop. 2, 15 (3, 7), 14; 3, 7 (4, 6), 49; Petr. 26.—Hence
* Transf., marriage, wedlock (very freq. both in sing. and plur.); sing.: thalami expers vitam Degere,Verg. A. 4, 550; cf.: si non pertaesum thalami taedaeque fuisset,id. ib. 4, 18: quantum in conubio natae thalamoque moratur,id. ib. 7, 253; so id. ib. 7, 388; 9, 594; Ov. M. 3, 267; 10, 571; Stat. Th. 5, 463 al. — Plur.: thalamos ne desere pactos,Verg. A. 10, 649; Ov M. 1, 658; 7, 22; 12, 193; id. Am. 1, 8, 19; id. F. 3, 689; Hor. C. 1, 15, 16; Mart. 10, 63, 7; Sen. Agam. 256; 992; Val. Fl. 1, 226.