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Thursday, April 16, 2015

A to Z Challenge: Natatorium

This month brings the A to Z Challenge, which I choose to meet with a series of words that thus far may have escaped your attention, sometimes deservedly so. Today's word is

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Natatorium
A swimming pool.
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3 comments:

  1. loverofwords8:30 AM

    Has to have a Latin origin. Romans called their bathing pools nataoriums?

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  2. Bob Sanchez12:47 PM

    Yep. The French nager and the Spanish nadar have the same root.

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  3. Alex J. Cavanaugh5:39 PM

    That's a new one for me.

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