Nomos
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Nomos or Nomoi may refer to:
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).
- Nome (Egypt)Nome (Egypt)A nome was a subnational administrative division of ancient Egypt. Today's use of the Greek nome rather than the Egyptian term sepat came about during the Ptolemaic period. Fascinated with Egypt, Greeks created many historical records about the country...
, a subdivisions of Ancient Egypt - Nome (Greece), the administrative division immediately below the peripheries of Greece
- lawLawLaw is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...
. It is the origin of the suffix -onomy, as in astronomy, economy, or taxonomy. - Nomos (mythology)Nomos (mythology)In Greek mythology, Nomos is the daemon of laws, statutes, and ordinances. By one account, Nomos' wife is Eusebia , and their daughter is Dike ....
, "the spirit of law" in Greek mythology - Nomos (sociology)Nomos (Sociology)In sociology, a nomos is a socially constructed ordering of experience. The term derives from the Greek νόμος, and it refers, not only to explicit laws, but to all of the normal rules and forms people take for granted in their day to day activities...
, "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 IllusionsCoded IllusionsCoded Illusions was a computer game development company based in the Netherlands, founded in August 2005 after being a two-year hobby project. The company was abolished in September 2008.-Products:...
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).
Companies
- NOMOS-BANKNOMOS-BANKOJSC NOMOS-BANK is one of Russia's largest private listed banks. It has 21 branches and 31 representative offices in Russia. It was co-founded by Igor Finogenov, now CEO of the Eurasian Development Bank...
, a Russian bank - Nomos GlashütteNomos GlashütteNomos Glashütte is a German luxury watch-making company that was founded in 1991 in Glashütte, Saxony by Roland Schwertner.The name includes Glashütte to distinguish it from a different "Nomos" watch-making company called Nomos-Uhr-Gesellschaft, Guido Müller & Co...
, a German watchmaking company - Nomos-Uhr-Gesellschaft, Guido Müller & Co., a German watch company from 1906-1910