-gon

See also: Appendix:Variations of "gon"

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Suffix

-gon

1. (geometry) Forms the names of plane figures containing a given number of internal angles, and thus bounded by that number of line segments (polygons).

   Synonym: -angle

   Coordinate terms: -hedron, -choron, -hedroid, polytope

   A pentagon has five sides.

   a 17-gon

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -gon

1000-gon

100-gon

10-gon

11-gon

12-gon

13-gon

14-gon

15-gon

16-gon

17-gon

18-gon

19-gon

200-gon

20-gon

21-gon

22-gon

23-gon

24-gon

30-gon

32-gon

34-gon

40-gon

42-gon

46-gon

4-gon

50-gon

5-gon

60-gon

65537-gon

6-gon

70-gon

7-gon

80-gon

8-gon

90-gon

96-gon

9-gon

amblygon

apeirogon

bigon

chiliagon

decagon

digon

dihectagon

dodecagon

duodecagon

enneadecagon

enneagon

fourgon

glucagon

googolgon

hectagon

hectogon

henagon

hendecagon

heptadecagon

heptagon

hexacontagon

hexadecagon

hexagon

hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon

icosagon

icosihenagon

icositetragon

infinigon

isogon

isogonism

kilogon

megagon

metagon

monogon

myriagon

nonagon

octadecagon

octagon

orthogon

orthogonal

oxygon

pentacontagon

pentadecagon

pentagon

perigon

planigon

polygon

septagon

sexagon

tetracontagon

tetradecagon

tetragon

tetrakaidecagon

triacontagon

tridecagon

trigon

triskaidecagon

undecagon

zerogon

zonogon

Related terms

• -gonal

Translations

having a given number of internal angles — see also -angle

• Armenian: -կյուն (-kyun)
• Catalan: -gon (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 邊形 / 边形 (biānxíng)

• Dutch: hoek (nl) m
• Finnish: -kulmio (fi), -goni
• French: -gone (fr) m
• German: -eck (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: -γωνον n (-gōnon)

• Hungarian: -szög
• Irish: -gán m
• Italian: -gono m
• Japanese: 角形 (ja) (kakkei)
• Korean: 각형 (gakhyeong)
• Latin: -gōnum n
• Malay: segi (ms), -kona, -gon
• Portuguese: -gono m
• Russian: -уго́льник m (-ugólʹnik)
• Spanish: -gono (es) m, -gona (es) f
• Swedish: -gon (sv) c, -hörning (sv) c
• Turkish: -gen, -gon
• Ukrainian: -ку́тник m (-kútnyk)
• Vietnamese: giác (vi)

Anagrams

• NGO, Ngo, Ong, nog

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

• aigon
• erkigon
• gwekigon
• igwukigon
• jekigon
• karigon
• moigon
• nyebakaigon
• okwigon

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

decàgon

enneàgon

pentàgon

polígon

tetràgon

Further reading

• “-gon”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
• “-gon”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “-gon” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Swedish

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek γωνία (gōnía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡoːn/

Suffix

-gon

1. (geometry) -gon

Synonyms

• -hörning

Anagrams

• nog