praestigium

== Latin == === Alternative forms === prēstīgium (Medieval Latin) === Etymology === Two suppositions: praestinguō (“to obscure, extinguish”). praestringō (“to blind; to blindfold; to dazzle or confuse someone”) === Noun === praestīgium n (genitive praestīgiī or praestīgī); second declension delusion, illusion magic trick ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Descendants ==== → Asturian: prestixu → Catalan: prestigi → English: prestige → French: prestige → Galician: prestixio → Italian: prestigio → Portuguese: prestígio → Romanian: prestigiu → Spanish: prestigio === References === “praestigium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "praestigium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “praestigium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “stringō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 591-592