The faces of a polyhedron are the surfaces at its sides. In classical Greek, one way to refer to the faces was to use the term βάσις, which Plato used in his Timaeus (55b), where he says the the icosahedron has “twenty equilateral triangular bases”.

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  • Holger Becker

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The faces of a polyhedron are the surfaces at its sides. In classical Greek, one way to refer to the faces was to use the term βάσις, which Plato used in his Timaeus (55b), where he says the the icosahedron has “twenty equilateral triangular bases”.