Nomos

Nomos or Nomoi may refer to:

• Nome (Egypt), a subdivisions of Ancient Egypt
• Nome (Greece), the administrative division immediately below the peripheries of Greece (Greek: νομός, nomós; pl. νομοί, nomoí)
• law (Greek: νόμος, nómos; pl. νόμοι, nómoi). It is the origin of the suffix -onomy, as in astronomy, economy, or taxonomy.
• Nomos (mythology), "the spirit of law" in Greek mythology
• Nomos (sociology), "meaningful orders or worldviews of individuals" in Peter L. Berger's sociology of religion
• Nomos (video game), a video game that was in development by Coded Illusions

The nouns nómos and nomós both derive from the verb νέμω, némō, to dispense or to allot, with nomós being the result of allotment and nómos being the manner of allotment or dispensing (justice).

Publications

• Nomos Publishers

Companies

• NOMOS-BANK, a Russian bank
• Nomos Glashütte, a German watchmaking company
• Nomos-Uhr-Gesellschaft, Guido Müller & Co., a German watch company from 1906-1910

See also

• Nome (disambiguation)