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
• Marathi: नोमेनक्लातुरा (nomenklāturā)
• Polish: nomenklatura (pl) f
• Portuguese: nomenclatura (pt) f
• Russian: номенклату́ра (ru) f (nomenklatúra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: номенклату́ра f

  Roman: nomenklatúra (sh) f

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

a social or political elite class

• French: nomenklature (fr) f
• Marathi: नोमेनक्लातुरा (nomenklāturā)

Czech

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnomɛŋklatura]

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

Further reading

• “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

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

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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)

Declension

Declension of nomenklatura

	singular	plural
nominative	nomenklatura	nomenklatury
genitive	nomenklatury	nomenklatur
dative	nomenklaturze	nomenklaturom
accusative	nomenklaturę	nomenklatury
instrumental	nomenklaturą	nomenklaturami
locative	nomenklaturze	nomenklaturach
vocative	nomenklaturo	nomenklatury

Derived terms

nouns

• nomenklatura binominalna

Related terms

nouns

• nomenklator

Further reading

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

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

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	nomenklatura	nomenklaturas
	definite	nomenklaturan	nomenklaturans
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

References

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