Where does “nomenklatura” come from?
nomenklatura (Italian) comes from Russian номенклату́ра, from Latin nōmenclātūra, from Latin nōmen, from Latin est, from Proto-Indo-European h₁ésti, from Proto-Indo-European h₁es- — to be.
nomenklatura (Italian): nomenklatura
Ancestry of “nomenklatura”, step by step