-gon

See also: Appendix:Variations of "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 (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 邊形, 边形 (biānxíng)

• Dutch: hoek (nl) m
• French: -gone (fr) m
• German: -eck (de) n
• Hungarian: -szög
• 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, Ong, nog

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Catalan

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γωνία (gōnía).

Suffix

-gon m

1. (geometry) -gon

Derived terms

► Catalan words suffixed with -gon

Further reading

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

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Swedish

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek γωνία (gōnía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡoːn/

Suffix

-gon

1. (geometry) -gon

Synonyms

• -hörning

Anagrams

• nog