octagon
Plural: octagons
Noun
- A polygon with eight sides and eight angles.
- an eight-sided polygon
- A polygon with eight sides and eight angles.
- Often in the form Octagon: the arena for mixed martial arts.
Examples
- The strategic placement of OCTAGON created a complex web of intersecting words on the Words With Friends board.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin octagōnon, octōgōnon (“octagon”), and from its etymon Ancient Greek ὀκτάγωνον (oktágōnon, “octagon”), probably from Koine Greek ὀκτάγωνος (oktágōnos, “having eight corners”) + -ον (-on, suffix forming nouns). ὀκτάγωνος is derived from ὀκτᾰ- (oktă-, prefix meaning ‘eight’) (from ὀκτώ (oktṓ, “eight”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw (“eight”)) + γωνία (gōnía, “angle; corner”) (probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu (“knee”)); analysable as octa- + -gon. The English word is cognate with Middle French octogone (modern French octogone), Italian octagono (obsolete), ottagono, Spanish octágono, octógono.
Sense 2 (“arena for mixed martial arts”) refers to its shape.
Synonyms
8-gon
Scrabble Score: 10
octagon: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordoctagon: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
octagon: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary