natatorium

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Late Latin natatorium, noun use of the neuter singular of Latin natātōrius (“for swimming”). Equivalent to natatory +‎ -ium. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /neɪtəˈtɔːɹɪəm/ (General American) IPA(key): /neɪtəˈtɔːɹi.əm/, /nætə-/, /næɾə-/ Hyphenation: na‧ta‧tor‧i‧um === Noun === natatorium (plural natatoriums or natatoria) (US) A swimming pool, especially an indoor one; a building housing one or more swimming pools. 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, ISBN 978-1-59420-120-2; republished London: Vintage Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-09-951233-2, page 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. […] ==== Synonyms ==== (building housing one or more swimming pools): nat (colloquial) ==== Derived terms ==== nat ==== Related terms ==== natatorial === Anagrams === maturation == Latin == === Adjective === natātōrium inflection of natātōrius: accusative masculine singular nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular === References === "natatorium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)