nomenklatura

See also: Nomenklatura, nómenklatúra, nomenklatūra, nomenklatūrā, and nomenklaturą

English

Alternative forms

• nomenclatura

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian номенклату́ра (nomenklatúra), from Latin nōmenclātūra (“a calling by name, list of names”), from nomen (“name”) + calare (“call”). Doublet of nomenclature.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /nɒˌmɛnkləˈtjʊəɹə/, /nɒˌmɛnkləˈtʃʊəɹə/

Noun

nomenklatura (plural nomenklaturas)

1. (now historical) A list of bureaucratic posts in government and industry in the former Soviet Union (or other communist countries), filled by those appointed by the Party. [from 20th c.]
2. (collective) The people on such lists; (by extension), any privileged class, a social or political elite. [from 20th c.]
   • 2007 October 13, Will Hutton, “Will China's next leader be its Gorbachev?”, in The Observer‎^[1], →ISSN:

     [Gorbachev] did not champion perestroika and glasnost alone; much of the nomenklatura had decided that the Soviet economic and social model was dysfunctional, corrupt and endemically inefficient and had to change.

   • 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 764:

     Communism envisioned […] an Authority Ranking of political control (in theory, the dictatorship of the proletariat; in practice, a nomenklatura of commissars under a charismatic dictator).

   • 2023, Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution, Public Affairs, →ISBN:

     During the long rule of Leonid Brezhnev (1964–1982), the nomenklatura had cemented their power in the system.

Translations

list of posts in Soviet Union

• Finnish: nomenklatuura (fi)
• French: nomenklatura (fr) f
• Greek: νομενκλατούρα (el) f (nomenklatoúra)
• Italian: nomenklatura (it) f
• Polish: nomenklatura (pl) f
• Portuguese: nomenclatura (pt) f
• Russian: номенклату́ра (ru) f (nomenklatúra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: номенклату́ра f

  Roman: nomenklatúra (sh) f

• Swedish: nomenklatura c
• Ukrainian: номенклату́ра (uk) f (nomenklatúra)

a social or political elite class

• French: nomenklature (fr) f

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nomenclatura (“a calling by name, list of names”), from nomen (“name”) + calare (“call”).

Noun

nomenklatura f

1. nomenclature

Declension

Declension of nomenklatura (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	nomenklatura	nomenklatury
genitive	nomenklatury	nomenklatur
dative	nomenklatuře	nomenklaturám
accusative	nomenklaturu	nomenklatury
vocative	nomenklaturo	nomenklatury
locative	nomenklatuře	nomenklaturách
instrumental	nomenklaturou	nomenklaturami

Related terms

• See nominace

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian номенклату́ра (nomenklatúra). Doublet of nomenclatura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /no.men.klaˈtu.ra/
• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: no‧men‧kla‧tù‧ra

Noun

nomenklatura f (plural nomenklature)

1. nomenklatura

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• nomenklaturene

Noun

nomenklatura m or n

1. definite neuter plural of nomenklatur

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nōmenclātūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɔ.mɛŋ.klaˈtu.ra/
• Rhymes: -ura
• Syllabification: no‧men‧kla‧tu‧ra

Noun

nomenklatura f

1. nomenclature (set of names or terms)

   Synonym: nazewnictwo

2. (historical) nomenklatura (list of posts in Soviet Union)

Declension

Declension of nomenklatura

	singular
nominative	nomenklatura
genitive	nomenklatury
dative	nomenklaturze
accusative	nomenklaturę
instrumental	nomenklaturą
locative	nomenklaturze
vocative	nomenklaturo

Derived terms

adjective

• nomenklaturowy

 

noun phrase

• nomenklatura binominalna

 

Related terms

noun

• nomenklator

 

Further reading

• nomenklatura in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• nomenklatura in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nomenclatura (“a calling by name, list of names”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nomenklatǔːra/
• Hyphenation: no‧men‧kla‧tu‧ra

Noun

nomenklatúra f (Cyrillic spelling номенклату́ра)

1. nomenclature

Declension

Declension of nomenklatura

	singular
nominative	nomenklatura
genitive	nomenklature
dative	nomenklaturi
accusative	nomenklaturu
vocative	nomenklaturo
locative	nomenklaturi
instrumental	nomenklaturom

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian номенклату́ра (nomenklatúra), from Latin nōmenclātūra (“a calling by name, list of names”), from nomen (“name”) + calare (“call”). Doublet of nomenklatur.

Noun

nomenklatura c

1. (historical) nomenklatura

Declension

Declension of nomenklatura
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	nomenklatura	nomenklaturan	—	—
Genitive	nomenklaturas	nomenklaturans	—	—

References

• nomenklatura in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• nomenklatura in Svensk ordbok (SO)