Katrina

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See also: Katrīna

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /kəˈtɹiːnə/
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Katrina

  1. A female given name from Ancient Greek. A variant of Catherine.
  2. The 11th hurricane 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?

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Proper noun[edit]

Katrina f

  1. a female given name

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Matronymics

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

Declension[edit]

Singular
Indefinite
Nominative Katrina
Accusative Katrinu
Dative Katrinu
Genitive Katrinu

Finnish[edit]

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Katrina

  1. essive singular of Katri

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Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Contraction of Katarina.

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Katrina c (genitive Katrinas)

  1. a female given name

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