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Faroese
Proper noun
Katarina f
- a female given name
Usage notes
Matronymics
- son of Katarina: Katarinuson
- daughter of Katarina: Katarinudóttir
Declension
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Singular
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Indefinite
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Katarina
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Katarinu
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Katarinu
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Katarinu
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German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: Ka‧ta‧ri‧na
Proper noun
Katarina
- a female given name, a less common variant of Katharina
Norwegian
Proper noun
Katarina
- a female given name, equivalent to English Catherine
- Carina, Cathrine, Kaja, Karen, Kari, Karianne, Karin, Karina, Kathrine, Katrine, Kine, Tine, Trine.
Serbo-Croatian
Proper noun
Katarina f (Cyrillic spelling Катарина)
- a female given name, equivalent to English Catherine
- Synonym: (archaic) Ekaterina
Declension
Further reading
- “Katarina”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2024
Swedish
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek Αἰκατερίνη (Aikaterínē), name of a saint. First recorded in Sweden around 1200 as Katerina.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Katarina c (genitive Katarinas)
- a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Catherine
References
- Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
- Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 49 249 females with the given name Katarina living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with frequency peaks in the 19th century and in the 1960s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.