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Perspex
[Perspex 词源字典]
1935, trade name in Britain for what in the U.S. is called
Plexiglas
or
Lucite
, irregularly formed from Latin
perspect-
, past participle stem of
perspicere
"look through, look closely at" (see
perspective
).
[Perspex etymology, Perspex origin, 英语词源]