-gon

See also: gon, gôn, goñ, gọn, goŋ, gon-, and 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 words suffixed with -gon

Translations

plane figure

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

  Mandarin: 邊形, 边形 (biānxíng)

• Dutch: hoek (nl) m
• French: -gone (fr) m
• German: -eck (de) n
• Irish: -gán m

• Japanese: 角形 (ja) (kakkei)
• Korean: 각형 (gakhyeong)
• Malay: segi, -kona, -gon
• Portuguese: -gono m
• Russian: -уго́льник m (-ugólʹnik), -го́н (ru) m (-gón)
• Spanish: -gono (es) m, -gona (es) f
• Swedish: -gon (sv) c, -hörning (sv) c
• Vietnamese: giác (vi)

See also

• -gonal
• -hedron

Anagrams

• NGO, Ngo, nog

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Ojibwe

Suffix

-gon

1. day

   ingodwaasogon — six days