Natatorium

Pronunciation

• IPA: /neɪtəˈtɔːɹɪəm/

Origin

From Late Latin natatorium, noun use of the neuter singular of Latin natatorius ‘natatory, for swimming’.

Full definition of natatorium

Noun

1. (US) A swimming pool, especially an indoor one.
• 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 226:A sunken chamber almost like a natatorium at some hot-springs resort, so cool and dim that you forgot after a while about the desert waiting out there to resume for you as soon as you stepped back into it. . . .

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