The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromγωνία“corner, angle”
- Ancient Greek · derived fromὀρθός“straight”
- English todayOrthogonian
Coined by Richard M. Nixon in 1930 from Ancient Greek ὀρθός (orthós, “straight”), Ancient Greek γωνία (gōnía, “corner, angle”), + -ian, to mean "straight shooter".
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekὀρθός all →
ortho-orthoepyorthomorphicorthopediaorthotonos
Ancient Greekγωνία all →
gon-gongonio-goniorhynchidhexacontagon
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.