Katrina

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See also: Katrīna

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kəˈtɹiːnə/
  • Audio (London):(file)

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, archived from the original on 9 March 2020:
      Is coronavirus Donald Trump’s Katrina?

Further reading

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

Old Czech

Pronunciation

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

Swedish

Etymology

Contraction of Katarina.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Katrina c (genitive Katrinas)

  1. a female given name

Anagrams

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