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natatorium

na·ta·tor·i·um/neɪtəˈtɔːɹi.əm/noun

natatorium is a noun meaning “A swimming pool, especially an indoor one; a building housing one or more swimming pools” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-A-T-A-T-O-R-I-U-M and has 5 syllables (na·ta·tor·i·um), and it appears about once in every 27 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of natatorium is natatoriums or natatoria.

What does natatorium mean?

noun

  1. 1

    USA swimming pool, especially an indoor one; a building housing one or more swimming pools.

    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. […]

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce natatorium?

  • UK /neɪtəˈtɔːɹɪəm/
  • US /neɪtəˈtɔːɹi.əm/
  • US /nætə-/

Natatorium has 5 syllables, split na·ta·tor·i·um in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-natatorium.opus, En-us-natatorium.opus, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of natatorium

  • natatoriums plural
  • natatoria plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is natatorium?

Natatorium appears about once in every 27 million words in written English, the 157,761st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you abbreviate natatorium?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of natatorium: nat.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does natatorium come from?

Borrowed from Late Latin natatorium, noun use of the neuter singular of Latin natātōrius (“for swimming”). Equivalent to natatory + -ium.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).