Where does “nomenklatura” come from?
Nomenklatura comes from Russian номенклату́ра, from Latin nomenclatura meaning "a system of names," derived from Latin calare and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European h₃neh₃-.
nomenklatura (English): A list of bureaucratic posts in government and...
Definitions
- A list of bureaucratic posts in government and...
Ancestry of “nomenklatura”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian | номенклату́ра | nomenclature |
| 2 | Latin | nōmenclātūra | a calling by name |
| 3 | Latin | nōmen | name |
| 4 | Latin | est | third-person singular present active indicative... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁ésti | to be |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁es- | to be |