natatrice
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin natātrīcem, feminine of natātor, derived from natō (“to swim”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
natatrice f (plural natatrici)
- (obsolete, literary) female equivalent of natatore; (female) swimmer
- Synonym: nuotatrice
- 1581, Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata [Jerusalem Delivered][1], Erasmo Viotti, Canto XV, page 355:
- Moſſer le natatrici ignude, e belle ¶ De i duo guerrieri alquanto i duri petti
- The bare, beautiful swimmers rather moved the hard chests of the two warriors