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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Â© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

pentagon XVI. — F. pentagone or late L. pentagōnum — Gr. pentágōnon, sb. use of n. of pentágōnos; see PENTA-, -GON.
So pentagonal XVI. — F. or medL.

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