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No, octo, or octa, means 8.No, octo, or octa, means 8.No, octo, or octa, means 8.No, octo, or octa, means 8.
As the "octa" at the beginning of the word would imply, an octagon is a shape with eight sides.
October, octopus, octopod, octogenarian. For geometric terms the prefix is generally octa, not octo.
Dodeca, meaning twelve... in the word octagon 'octa' (eight) is the prefix, polygon 'poly' (many) and so on. These prefixes come from ancient Greek.
The prefix octa- means eight. So, a octahedron will have 8 faces. It also has 12 edges and 6 vertices.