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 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.”
- (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
- Hurricane Katrina on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Faroese
Usage notes
Matronymics
- son of Katrina: Katrinuson
- daughter of Katrina: Katrinudóttir
Declension
Singular | |
Indefinite | |
Nominative | Katrina |
Accusative | Katrinu |
Dative | Katrinu |
Genitive | Katrinu |
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