its a number and it means "seven"
Greek, meaning seven
It is Greek, meaning seven
Both the French word "sept" and the Greek word "hepta" mean the number seven.
It's called a heptagon. Hepta being the greek word meaning 7.
It comes from Greek, with "hepta" meaning the number seven. Latin for seven is "septem."
The prefix hepta- means seven.
7 (from the greek "epta", meaning, you guessed it, seven)
hepta or hept-
A heptagon has seven sides. The term "heptagon" comes from the Greek word "hepta," meaning seven. It is a polygon with seven edges and seven vertices.
Greek meaning seven sidesStrictly speaking, it comes from the Greek prefix hepta- = seven and the Greek suffix -gon = corner (or vertex), not side.
A seventeen-sided polygon is called a "heptadecagon", from the Greek hepta- meaning 7, deka- meaning 10, and gonus meaning angle.
The Greek prefixes for 3, 5, and 7 are "tri-", "penta-", and "hepta-" respectively.