Meanings
prefix
- angle.
He had turn’d the same covetous Angles as the Welshman,– tho’ perhaps never as many, for Shelby seem’d seiz’d with Goniolatry, or the Worship of Angles, defining tracts of virgin Land by as many of these exhilarating Instrumental Sweeps, as possible.
1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 587
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*ǵónu
- Proto-Hellenic*gónu
- Proto-Hellenic*gonwía
- Ancient Greekγωνίᾱ (gōníā)
- Englishgonio-
From Ancient Greek γωνία (gōnía, “angle”).
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gonio-. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gonio-
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