I'm pretty sure that -gon is the root word and it means angles. The prefix poly- means many and is most likely what you're asking for.
poly is not a root word. Poly is actually a prefix. It means of many.
they are ment to be in town.
The prefix poly is defined as being much or many. An example of this prefix in a word is polygon which means a shape that has many sides.
It means "many" (in practice, an unspecified number, more than one).
The word comes from the Greek "polis" which means 'city', and the follow-on term 'politikos' means 'affairs of the city'. The terms were used and developed by the Spartans and Athenians, approx 375 - 325 BC as they developed the concepts of citizenship, patriotism, and duty-to-country..
A suffix derived from the Greek "pathos" meaning "suffering or disease" that serves as a suffix in many terms including myopathy (muscle disease).
If you want to make sense of the word 'apoly' then try looking for its latin/greek roots...'a' as a prefix could be taken as 'not' and poly means 'many' which is used as a suffix....so adding these together you have 'not many'.
The Greek word polygon means 'many sides'
Because the Greek word polyhedron means many faces and the Greek word polygon means many sides
A polygon comes from a Greek word meaning 'many sides'
Our English word "polygon" means "many angled." It comes from the ancient Greek πολύγωνον (pronounced "polygōnon"), a combination of the words πολύς (pronounced "polus"; translated as "many") and γωνία (pronounced "gōnia"; translated as"angle").
polygon
Polygon means "many sides."
Poly means many and polygon means shape of many sides
Poly means many and polygon means shape of many sides
polygon < πολύγωνο < πολύ + γωνίαπολύ = multi-, manyγωνία = angleSo polygon = "multiangled"
A five-sided polygon is called a "pentagon" and can be equilateral (regular) or irregular. The word polygon (πολύγωνο in Greek) means "many kneed", referring to numerous angles in the shapes.
The ancient Greeks because polygon come from a Greek word meaning 'many sides'
Poly is the word for many, probably Greek.