Nomos

Nomos (plural: Nomoi) can refer to:

• the subdivisions of Ancient Egypt, see Nome (Egypt)
• the prefectures of 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. See also Biblical law in Christianity
• the spirit of law, in Greek mythology
• meaningful orders or worldviews of individuals, in Peter L. Berger's sociology of religion
• "Nomos", a game supposedly 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: Studies in Spontaneous Order a magazine published in the 1980s and 1990s, connected with the libertarian movement.
• Nomos Publishers ([1], [2]).
• NOMOS: Yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy ([3], [4]).

Companies

• Best Nomos, an American Radiation Oncology company [5]
• Nomos AG, a numismatic firm based in Zürich, Switzerland [6]
• NOMOS-BANK, a Russian bank
• NOMOS Glashütte/SA, a German watch maker
• Nomos-Uhr-Gesellschaft, Guido Müller & Co., a German watch company from 1906-1910

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