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From Latin

No. of sides ; Shape name.

3 ' Trigon (Triangle)

4 ' Tetragon (Quaderilateral)

5; Pentagon

6; Hexagon

7; Heptagon

8; Octagon

9; Nonagon

10l Decagon.

NB Mathemtics uses are lot of names from the Classics, (Latin, and Classical Greek). That's were the above nomenclature comes from.

NNB The word 'Mathematics' is from Classical Greece, and means 'to learn'.

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