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-gon

See also: Appendix:Variations of "gon"

English

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Etymology

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

Suffix

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-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

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English terms suffixed with -gon

Translations

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See also

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Anagrams

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Abinomn

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Etymology

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

Suffix

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-gon

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

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek γωνία (gōnía).

Suffix

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

  1. (geometry) -gon

Derived terms

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Catalan terms suffixed with -gon

Further reading

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Swedish

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Ancient Greek γωνία (gōnía).

Pronunciation

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Suffix

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-gon

  1. (geometry) -gon

Synonyms

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Anagrams

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