-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

(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.

Derived terms

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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)

Anagrams

NGO, Ngo, nog

Ojibwe

Suffix

-gon

day
ingodwaasogon — six days

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