Everyday LifeGreek → English
Pentagon
A five-sided plane figure.
The Greek roots
πέντε
pénte
five
γωνία
gōnía
angle, corner
Literally: “five angles”
The story of the word
A 'five-angle'. The gōnía that shapes it also frames hexagon, polygon, and diagonal.
The same roots elsewhere
Other languages reached for exactly the same Greek pieces.
In a sentence
The children drew a lopsided pentagon.