nomenklatura
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Russian номенклату́ра (nomenklatúra), from Latin nōmenclātūra (“a calling by name, list of names”), from nomen (“name”) + calare (“call”). Doublet of nomenclature.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
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. [from 20th c.]
- (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.
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Czech[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin nomenclatura (“a calling by name, list of names”), from nomen (“name”) + calare (“call”).
Noun[edit]
nomenklatura f
Declension[edit]
singular | plural | |
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nominative | nomenklatura | nomenklatury |
genitive | nomenklatury | nomenklatur |
dative | nomenklatuře | nomenklaturám |
accusative | nomenklaturu | nomenklatury |
vocative | nomenklaturo | nomenklatury |
locative | nomenklatuře | nomenklaturách |
instrumental | nomenklaturou | nomenklaturami |
Related terms[edit]
- See nominace
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Russian номенклату́ра (nomenklatúra). Doublet of nomenclatura.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
nomenklatura f (plural nomenklature)
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
nomenklatura m or n
Polish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin nōmenclātūra.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
nomenklatura f
- nomenclature (set of names or terms)
- Synonym: nazewnictwo
- (historical) nomenklatura (list of posts in Soviet Union)
Declension[edit]
singular | |
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nominative | nomenklatura |
genitive | nomenklatury |
dative | nomenklaturze |
accusative | nomenklaturę |
instrumental | nomenklaturą |
locative | nomenklaturze |
vocative | nomenklaturo |
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- nomenklatura in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- nomenklatura in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin nomenclatura (“a calling by name, list of names”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
nomenklatúra f (Cyrillic spelling номенклату́ра)
Declension[edit]
singular | |
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nominative | nomenklatura |
genitive | nomenklature |
dative | nomenklaturi |
accusative | nomenklaturu |
vocative | nomenklaturo |
locative | nomenklaturi |
instrumental | nomenklaturom |
Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Russian номенклату́ра (nomenklatúra), from Latin nōmenclātūra (“a calling by name, list of names”), from nomen (“name”) + calare (“call”). Doublet of nomenklatur.
Noun[edit]
nomenklatura c
Declension[edit]
Declension of nomenklatura | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | nomenklatura | nomenklaturan | — | — |
Genitive | nomenklaturas | nomenklaturans | — | — |
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- Rhymes:Italian/ura
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- pl:Soviet Union
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- Swedish terms borrowed from Russian
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- sv:Soviet Union