-gon

English edit

Etymology edit

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

Suffix edit

-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 take the hyphenated suffix directly.
A pentagon has five sides.

a 17-gon

Derived terms edit

English terms suffixed with -gon

Translations edit

plane figure

Armenian: -կյուն (-kyun)
Catalan: -gon (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 邊形／边形 (biānxíng)
Dutch: hoek (nl) m
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, -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
Turkish: -gen, -gon
Vietnamese: giác (vi)

See also edit

Anagrams edit

NGO, Ngo, Ong, nog

Abinomn edit

Etymology edit

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

Suffix edit

-gon

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

Derived terms edit

Catalan edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ancient Greek γωνία (gōnía).

Suffix edit

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

(geometry) -gon

Derived terms edit

Catalan terms suffixed with -gon

Further reading edit

“-gon” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
“-gon”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
“-gon” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Swedish edit

Etymology edit

Ultimately from Ancient Greek γωνία (gōnía).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈɡoːn/

Suffix edit

-gon

(geometry) -gon

Synonyms edit

-hörning

Anagrams edit

nog

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