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-gon

-gon

See also: gon, gôn, goñ, gọn, goŋ, gon-, and gon'

English

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 be attached directly to an English numeral with a hyphen.
    A pentagon.
    A 17-gon.

Derived terms

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Translations

See also

Ojibwe

Suffix

-gon

  1. day
    ingodwaasogon — six days

Etymology

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

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