different between natatorium vs natatory

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin natatorium, noun use of the neuter singular of Latin nat?t?rius (“for swimming; natatory”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ne?t??t?????m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ne??t??t???i.?m/, /næt?-/, /næ??-/
• Hyphenation: na?ta?tor?i?um

Noun

natatorium (plural natatoriums or natatoria)

1. (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. […]

Related terms

• natatorial

Anagrams

• maturation

Latin

Adjective

nat?t?rium

1. inflection of nat?t?rius:
   1. accusative masculine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular

References

• natatorium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

English

Etymology

From Latin natare

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /næ.te?.t?.?i?/

Adjective

natatory (not comparable)

1. of, or relating to, swimming

Related terms

• natation
• natatorial
• natator
• natant
• natatorium

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