Question

What do you call a seven sided shape?

Answer 1

Hint: A polygon is named after the number of sides it has. Depending upon the number of sides, the prefix of the polygon’s name is derived from Latin and the suffix is “gon” for all the polygons with any number of sides. “Gon” is the suffix derived from Greek. The prefix of the name always implies the number of sides it possesses.

Complete step-by-step answer:
Now let us learn more about polygons. Polygons are two-dimensional shapes. A polygon with equal sides is called a regular polygon, otherwise it is called an irregular polygon. The polygons are divided into two types depending upon the measure of the angle as concave and convex polygons. If any of the polygon has an interior angle greater than $${180}^{\circ }$$, then it is called a concave polygon.
Now let us find out the name of the polygon with seven sides.
The seven sided polygon is nothing but the polygon with seven sides. It is called as a “heptagon” in which ‘septua’ which means seven is derived from Latin and ‘gonia’ which means angular is derived from Greek. A Septagon is also known as “Heptagon” in which both the suffix and the prefix are derived from Greek. Hepta meaning seven in Greek. A sepatgon or a heptagon can also be called as $$7$$-gon as it has seven sides.
The figure of a regular heptagon looks as shown below.

This is a regular heptagon since all of the sides are equal.

Note: The names of the polygons can be remembered in a simple way( not all of them but a few can be related and remembered). A quadrilateral can be remembered by relating to a quad-bike as it has four wheels. Octagon can be related to octopus as it has eight tentacles. Decagon can be related to our decimal system as it has ten digits and so on.