nomenklatura

• nomenclatura

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

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

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, →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.

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

nomenklatura f

1. nomenclature

• See nominace

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

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

nomenklatura f (plural nomenklature)

1. nomenklatura

• nomenklaturene

nomenklatura m or n

1. definite neuter plural of nomenklatur

Borrowed from Latin nōmenclātūra.

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

nomenklatura f

1. nomenclature (set of names or terms)

   Synonym: nazewnictwo

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

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

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

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

nomenklatúra f (Cyrillic spelling номенклату́ра)

1. nomenclature

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

nomenklatura c

1. (historical) nomenklatura

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