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na⋅ta⋅to⋅ri⋅um

  [ney-tuh-tawr-ee-uhm, -tohr-, nat-uh-]
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–noun, plural -to⋅ri⋅ums, -to⋅ri⋅a  [-tawr-ee-uh, -tohr-] .
a swimming pool, esp. one that is indoors.
Origin:
1885–90; < LL natātōrium swimming place, equiv. to L natā(re) to swim + -tōrium -tory 2
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na·ta·to·ri·um   (nā'tə-tôr'ē-əm, -tōr'-, nāt'ə-)   
n.  An indoor swimming pool.

[Late Latin natātōrium, place for swimming, from neuter of Latin natātōrius, of swimming, from natātus, act of swimming, from past participle of natāre, frequentative of nāre, to swim; see natatorial.]
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Word Origin & History

natatorium 
1890, New Englandish word for "swimming pool," from L. natator "swimmer" (from nare "to swim") + -ium, neut. suffix. Latin nare is from PIE *sna- "to swim, to flow" (cf. Arm. nay "wet, liquid;" Gk. notios "damp, moist," nao "I flow;" Skt. snati "bathes;" M.Ir. snaim "I swim;" and probably also Gk. nesos "island," from *na-sos, lit. "that which swims").
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