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. A list of bureaucratic posts in government and industry in the former Soviet Union and 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.

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈnomɛŋklatura]

nomenklatura f

1. nomenclature

• See nominace

• “nomenklatura”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “nomenklatura”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “nomenklatura”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

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

Learned borrowing from Latin nōmenclātūra. Sense 3, sense 4 and sense 5 are semantic loans from Russian номенклату́ра (nomenklatúra).

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

nomenklatura f (related adjective nomenklaturowy)

1. (countable) nomenclature (set of rules used for forming the names or terms in a particular field of arts or sciences)

   Synonyms: nazewnictwo, terminologia

2. (countable) nomenclature (set of names or terms)

   Synonyms: nazewnictwo, terminologia

4. (uncountable, derogatory, historical, politics) nomenklatura (list of bureaucratic posts in government and industry in the former Soviet Union (or other communist countries), filled by those appointed by the Party)
6. (uncountable, collective, derogatory, historical, politics) nomenklatura (people on such lists)
8. (uncountable, collective, derogatory, politics) nomenklatura (any privileged class; a social or political elite)

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

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

From Russian [Term?].

• IPA^(key): /nomenklaˈtuɾa/ [no.mẽŋ.klaˈt̪u.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: no‧men‧kla‧tu‧ra

nomenklatura f (uncountable)

1. nomenklatura

• “nomenklatura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

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)