See also: Katarína and Katarīna

Faroese

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Proper noun

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Katarina f

  1. a female given name

Usage notes

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Matronymics

  • son of Katarina: Katarinuson
  • daughter of Katarina: Katarinudóttir

Declension

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Singular
Indefinite
Nominative Katarina
Accusative Katarinu
Dative Katarinu
Genitive Katarinu

German

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [kataˈʁiːna]
  • Audio (Austria):(file)
  • Hyphenation: Ka‧ta‧ri‧na

Proper noun

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Katarina

  1. a female given name, a less common variant of Katharina

Norwegian

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Proper noun

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Katarina

  1. a female given name, equivalent to English Catherine
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Serbo-Croatian

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Proper noun

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Katarina f (Cyrillic spelling Катарина)

  1. a female given name, equivalent to English Catherine
    Synonym: (archaic) Ekaterina

Declension

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Further reading

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  • Katarina”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2024

Swedish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From the Ancient Greek Αἰκατερίνη (Aikaterínē), name of a saint. First recorded in Sweden around 1200 as Katerina.

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Proper noun

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Katarina c (genitive Katarinas)

  1. a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Catherine
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References

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  • Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
  • [1] 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.