Talk:Nonagon

message: "Nonagon" has a Latin prefix and a Greek suffix. Why do so many people prefer this term?? Do they really know the difference between Latin and Greek?? HI66.32.253.241 19:52, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: In contrast, "quadrilateral" is a perfectly okay word; it is totally Latin, as opposed to "tetragon", which is totally Greek. "Nonagon", OTOH, is a mixture. A word of the same kind "nonagon" is would be "quadrigon" or "tetralateral". 66.245.118.250 20:19, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

text: Where did you learn that "-gon" is a Latin suffix?? I always thought the correct Latin suffix was -"angle" or -"lateral". 66.32.252.8 21:50, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Latin does use the -gon suffix.  Pentagon, octagon, nonagon, decagon, and undecagon are all words found in Latin.  -angle, -gon, and -lateral additionally have different meanings.  -angle refers to an angle, which is not exactly the same as a corner, which is -gon.  -lateral refers to the sides.  --Eequor 23:25, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: True or false: some of these words are words that came from Greek through Latin to English. 66.32.246.242 23:47, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see how that matters.  The point is, in English all of those words are identical to the Latin words; they were simply "borrowed".  It's basically irrelevant that they were in turn derived from Greek words; modern English uses the Latin form, not the Greek form.  Should we consider you to be an improper spelling of iu (Old High German) because that is the earliest known form of the word?  --Eequor 04:26, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the best argument for enneagon is consistency. Almost all Greek words came into English through Latin, but the point is this, that Latin had its own set of native words (triangle, quadrangle, and similar ones with -lateral) and to confuse the prefixes is to ignore the difference between Latin and Greek. Another question is whether "nonagon" actually existed in classical Latin, and if we searched for it (I have no evidence at hand, we might find that nonagon was invented much more recently, perhaps by someone without much knowledge of Latin or Greek prefixes. If you wanted a fully Latin form, you could use *nonangle or *nonalateral. Unlike the word "television" (also a mix of Latin and Greek), nonagon is a chiefly technical term, so I think it makes sense to be consistent and use the Greek prefix ennea-. Lesgles 20:30, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

text: Isn't it -gonum? Yuhani (talk) 03:02, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Greek vs. Latin

message: Should this page not be moved to Nonagon, rather than redirected from there? Mathworld uses "nonagon" as the standard term (see http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Nonagon.html). Jacquerie27 13:32, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: And it is re-educate, not reducate. Professor M. Fiendish, Esq. 08:02, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Move page?

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