different between swimingpool vs natatorium

English

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

natatorium (plural natatoriums or natatoria)

(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. […]

nat?t?rium

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

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

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