Katrina
See also: Katrīna
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kəˈtɹiːnə/
Audio (London): (file)
Proper noun
Katrina
- A female given name from Ancient Greek. A variant of Catherine.
- 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.”
- (US, metonymic) 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
- 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
Anagrams
Old Czech
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Katrina f
- 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 |
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: (file)
Proper noun
Katrina c (genitive Katrinas)
- a female given name