-gon

English

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 be attached directly to an English numeral with a hyphen.
   • A pentagon.
   • A 17-gon.

Related terms

• decagon
• dodecagon
• enneagon
• heptagon
• hexagon
• n-gon
• nonagon
• octagon
• pentagon
• polygon
• quindecagon
• tetragon
• trigon
• undecagon

Translations

plane figure

• Catalan: -gon (ca) m
• Dutch: hoek (nl) m
• French: -gone (fr) m
• German: Eck (de) n
• Irish: -gán (ga) m

• Japanese: 角形 (ja) (kakkei)
• Korean: 각형 (ko) (gakhyeong)
• Spanish: -gono (es) m, -gona (es) f
• Swedish: -gon (sv) c, -hörning (sv) c
• Vietnamese: giác (vi)

See also

• -gonal
• -hedron

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Ojibwe

Suffix

-gon

1. day

   ingodwaasogon — six days