Katrina

See also: Katrīna

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈtɹiːnə/

• Audio (London):

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Proper noun

Katrina

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek. A variant of Catherine.
2. The 11th tropical storm of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, which caused catastrophic damage to Louisiana, Mississippi and parts of Alabama.
   • 2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 250:

     “It’s disaster capitalism,” the Aleph said. “All the profiteering that went down post-Katrina. It was in 2005. You’re probably too young to remember that hurricane.”

3. (US, metonymically) A large-scale disaster, especially one with negative political consequences.
   • 2020 March 8, Chris Cillizza, “Is coronavirus Donald Trump’s Katrina?”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 9 March 2020:

     Is coronavirus Donald Trump’s Katrina?

Further reading

• Hurricane Katrina on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Faroese

Proper noun

Katrina f

1. a female given name

Usage notes

Matronymics

• son of Katrina: Katrinuson
• daughter of Katrina: Katrinudóttir

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Katrina
Accusative	Katrinu
Dative	Katrinu
Genitive	Katrinu

Finnish

Proper noun

Katrina

1. essive singular of Katri

Anagrams

• kitaran, narikat, ratikan

Old Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈkatrina/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈkatrina/

Proper noun

Katrina f

1. a female given name

Declension

Declension of Katrina (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	Katrina	Katrině	Katriny
genitive	Katriny	Katrinú	Katrin
dative	Katrině	Katrinama	Katrinám
accusative	Katrinu	Katrině	Katriny
vocative	Katrino	Katrině	Katriny
locative	Katrině	Katrinú	Katrinách
instrumental	Katrinú	Katrinama	Katrinami

This table shows the most common forms around the 13th century.
See also Appendix:Old Czech nouns and Appendix:Old Czech pronunciation.

Further reading

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “Katrina”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Swedish

Etymology

Contraction of Katarina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka²triːna/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Katrina c (genitive Katrinas)

1. a female given name

Anagrams

• tikarna