Poly means many.
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Poly means many and polygon means shape of many sides
It means 'many' sides
Poly is Latin for many.
Just like -gon means "2-D", -hedron means "3-D".Poly- means "many".Polyhedron means "a 3-D shape with manyfaces".
A polygon can have any number of sides. The prefix 'poly' means many, so a polygon is a 'many sided' plane figure. The prefix poly can be replaced by other prefixes meaning definite numbers of sides. A pentagon, for example, has five sides, an octagon has eight sides, and a decagon has ten sides.