-gon
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek γωνία (gōnía, “corner, angle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu (“knee”).
Suffix
-gon
- (geometry) Forms the names of plane figures containing a given number of angles, and thus bounded by that number of line segments (polygons). If the number is large enough, it can take the hyphenated suffix directly.
- A pentagon has five sides.
- a 17-gon
Derived terms
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Translations
plane figure
Ojibwe
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