polygon < πολύγωνο < πολύ + γωνία
πολύ = multi-, many
γωνία = angle
So polygon = "multiangled"
A 13 sided polygon is called a tridecagon or a triskaidecagon. The name comes from the Greek words for thirteen.
A polygon comes from a Greek word meaning 'many sides'
The Greek word polygon means 'many sides'
A twenty sided polygon is called an icosagon - from the Greek words "icosi", meaning twenty, and "gonus", meaning angle, or knee.
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").
The language of origin of "pentagon" is Greek. It comes from the words "pente," meaning five, and "gonia," meaning angle, which refers to a five-sided polygon.
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A polygon can have 8 sides but does not have to. The word "Polygon" is made up of two words: "poly-" and "-gon" which have Greek roots which mean "many" and "angle" respectively; literally a "polygon" is a "many angled shape". A polygon is any shape that has 3 or more sides. An 8 sided polygon is called an octagon (literally "eight angles").
A 113-sided polygon is called a "hectatridecagon." The name is derived from the Greek words "hekaton," meaning one hundred, and "triaconta," meaning thirty. In geometry, polygons with a large number of sides are typically named using a combination of Greek prefixes to indicate the number of sides.
Dodecahedron, the the Greek for 12.
An eighteen-sided polygon is called an octadecagon or octakaidecagon, from the Greek words okta, meaning 8, the modifier -kai-, the word deka, meaning 10, and the suffix -gon, meaning angle.
The ancient Greeks because polygon come from a Greek word meaning 'many sides'