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English
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)
- (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.
- (collective) The people on such lists; (by extension), any privileged class, a social or political elite.
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.
Translations
list of posts in Soviet Union
a social or political elite class
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin nomenclatura (“a calling by name, list of names”), from nomen (“name”) + calare (“call”).
Noun
nomenklatura f
- nomenclature
Declension
Declension of nomenklatura (hard feminine)
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)
- nomenklatura
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
nomenklatura m or n
- 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
- nomenclature (set of names or terms)
- Synonym: nazewnictwo
- (historical) nomenklatura (list of posts in Soviet Union)
Declension
Declension of nomenklatura
Derived terms
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)
- nomenclature
Declension
Declension of nomenklatura
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
- (historical) nomenklatura
Declension
References