-gon

See also: Appendix:Variations of "gon"

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γωνία (gōnía, corner, angle), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu (knee).

Suffix

-gon

  1. (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

English terms suffixed with -gon

Translations

See also

Anagrams

Abinomn

Etymology

None; due to Abinomn's possible nature of being a language isolate.

Suffix

-gon

  1. forms plurals of certain nouns ending with an "i" sound, as opposed to -kon and -di

Derived terms

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek γωνία (gōnía).

Suffix

-gon m (noun-forming suffix, plural -gons)

  1. (geometry) -gon

Derived terms

Catalan terms suffixed with -gon

Further reading

Swedish

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek γωνία (gōnía).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡoːn/

Suffix

-gon

  1. (geometry) -gon

Synonyms

  • -hörning

Anagrams

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