Plexiglas

See also: plexiglas and plexiglás

Translingual

Etymology

From German Plexiglas.

Proper noun

Plexiglas

1. A brand of tough, transparent plastic (polymethyl methacrylate) which can be used as a replacement for glass in windows, aircraft cockpit domes and windshields, and the like.

Derived terms

• plexiglass

Translations

brand of tough, transparent plastic

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 有機玻璃 / 有机玻璃 (zh) (yǒujī bōli)

• Czech: plexisklo n
• Finnish: pleksilasi
• French: plexiglas (fr) m
• German: Acrylglas (de) n, Plexiglas n
• Japanese: プレキシガラス (purekishigarasu)
• Russian: плексигла́с (ru) m (pleksiglás), оргстекло́ (ru) n (orgstekló), органи́ческое стекло́ n (organíčeskoje stekló)
• Spanish: plexiglás m
• Ukrainian: оргскло́ n (orhskló), органі́чне скло n (orhaníčne sklo)

See also

• Lucite
• Perspex

German

Etymology

Coined by Otto Röhm in 1933, from Latin plexus (“interwoven”) +‎ Glas (“glass”), alluding to polymerization.

Pronunciation

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Noun

Plexiglas n (strong, genitive Plexiglases or Plexiglass, plural Plexigläser)

1. plexiglass

   Synonym: Acrylglas

Declension

Declension of Plexiglas [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Plexiglas	die	Plexigläser
genitive	eines	des	Plexiglases, Plexiglass	der	Plexigläser
dative	einem	dem	Plexiglas, Plexiglase1	den	Plexigläsern
accusative	ein	das	Plexiglas	die	Plexigläser

¹Now rare, see notes.

Derived terms

• Plexiglasscheibe

Further reading

• “Plexiglas” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Plexiglas” in Duden online
• “Plexiglas” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon