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

Photo from
http://www.pemsurface.com/us-swimming-nationals.html

Natatorium
A swimming pool.

3 comments:

loverofwords said...

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

Bob Sanchez said...

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

Alex J. Cavanaugh said...

That's a new one for me.