-gon
See also: Appendix:Variations of "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 take the hyphenated suffix directly.
- A pentagon has five sides.
- a 17-gon
Derived terms
English terms suffixed with -gon
Translations
plane figure
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See also
- -gonal
- -hedron
Anagrams
- NGO, Ngo, Ong, nog
Abinomn
Etymology
None; due to Abinomn's possible nature of being a language isolate.
Suffix
-gon
- 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
Catalan
Etymology
From Ancient Greek γωνία (gōnía).
Suffix
-gon m
- (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.
Swedish
Etymology
Ultimately from Ancient Greek γωνία (gōnía).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡoːn/
Suffix
-gon
- (geometry) -gon
Synonyms
- -hörning
Anagrams
- nog