Lost English lexicon. This is a swimming pool. The Nata- words have to do with swimming, which we would all still know if we still studied Latin. Natant, Supernatant, Natation, Natatorial... of these supposedly English words, the only one I recognized was "Supernatant": floating.
More interesting, this word has very old ties to "nurture" and its relatives, "nutrient", "nutrition", etc.
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