-gon

-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 terms 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 Turkish: -gen, -gon Vietnamese: giác (vi)

See also

• -gonal
• -hedron

Anagrams

• NGO, Ngo, Ong, nog

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Abinomn

Etymology

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

Suffix

-gon

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

Derived terms

• aigon
• erkigon
• gwekigon
• igwukigon
• jekigon
• karigon
• moigon
• nyebakaigon
• okwigon

 

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Catalan

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γωνία (gōnía).

Suffix

-gon m

1. (geometry) -gon

Derived terms

Catalan terms 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, 2023
• “-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