prestige

prestige

See also: Prestige

English

Alternative forms

• præstige (archaic)

Etymology

From French prestige (“illusion, fascination, enchantment, prestige”), from Latin praestigium (“a delusion, an illusion”). Despite the phonetic similarities and the old meaning of “delusion, illusion, trick”, the word has a different root than prestidigitator (“conjurer”) and prestidigitation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹɛsˈtiːd͡ʒ/, /pɹəˈstiːd͡ʒ/, /pɹəˈstiːʒ/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɛs.tɪd͡ʒ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -iːʒ, -iːd͡ʒ

Noun

prestige (usually uncountable, plural prestiges)

1. The quality of how good the reputation of something or someone is, how favourably something or someone is regarded.

   Oxford has a university of very high prestige.

2. (obsolete, often preceded by "the") Delusion; illusion; trick.
   • 1811, William Warburton, Richard Hurd, editor, The works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester, volume the ninth, London: Luke Hansard & Sons, OCLC 7605701, page 121:

     That faith which, we are told, was founded on a rock, impregnable to the assaults of men and demons; to the sophisms of infidelity, and the prestiges of imposture!

Derived terms

• covert prestige
• overt prestige
• prestigious

Translations

dignity, status, or esteem

Arabic: سُمْعَة‎ f (sumʿa), كَرَامَة‎ (ar) f (karāma) Hijazi Arabic: سُمْعة‎ f (sumʿa), هِيبة‎ f (hība), پرستيج‎ m (pristīj) Asturian: prestixu m Belarusian: прэсты́ж m (prestýž), аўтарытэ́т m (aŭtarytét) Bulgarian: прести́ж (bg) m (prestíž), авторите́т (bg) m (avtoritét) Catalan: prestigi (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 威信 (zh) (wēixìn), 威望 (zh) (wēiwàng), 名譽／名誉 (zh) (míngyù) Czech: prestiž (cs) f Danish: anseelse (da) c, prestige c Dutch: aanzien (nl) n, prestige (nl) n Esperanto: prestiĝo (eo) Estonian: prestiiž (et) Faroese: mæti n, tign f Finnish: maine (fi), arvovalta (fi) French: prestige (fr) m Galician: prestixio m Georgian: პრესტიჟი (ṗresṭiži), ავტორიტეტი (avṭoriṭeṭi), რეპუტაცია (reṗuṭacia) German: Prestige (de) n, Ansehen (de) n, Geltung (de) f, Wertschätzung (de) f Hindi: प्रतिष्ठा (hi) f (pratiṣṭhā) Hungarian: presztízs (hu) Indonesian: prestise (id) Italian: prestigio (it) m Japanese: 名誉 (ja) (めいよ, meiyo), 威信 (ja) (いしん, ishin) Korean: 위신(威信) (ko) (wisin), 명망(名望) (ko) (myeongmang), 명예(名譽) (ko) (myeong'ye) Latvian: prestižs m Lithuanian: prestižas m Malay: prestij Maori: whakahirahiratanga Norwegian: Bokmål: prestisje m Persian: اعتبار‎ (fa) (e'tebâr), پرستیژ‎ (fa) (prestiž) Polish: prestiż (pl) m Portuguese: prestígio (pt) m Romanian: prestigiu (ro) n Russian: прести́ж (ru) m (prestíž), авторите́т (ru) m (avtoritét) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пре̏стӣж m Roman: prȅstīž (sh) m Shan: မုၼ် (shn) (mǔn) Slovak: prestíž f Slovene: prestiž m Southern Altai: тоомјы (toomǰï) Spanish: prestigio (es) m, prestancia (es) Swedish: anseende (sv) n, prestige (sv) c Thai: เกียรติภูมิ (th) (gìiat-dtì-puum) Ukrainian: прести́ж (uk) m (prestýž), авторите́т (uk) m (avtorytét) Vietnamese: uy tín (vi), thanh thế Volapük: prästig (vo)

See also

• prestigiousness

Adjective

prestige (not comparable)

1. (sociolinguistics, of a linguistic form) Regarded as relatively prestigious; often, considered the standard language or language variety, or a part of such a variety.
   • 1971, John Gumperz, “Formal and informal standards in Hindi regional language area”, in Language in Social Groups, Stanford: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 48:

     Furthermore there is in each area a well recognized standard, known by a single name, which although often linguistically distinct from local dialects, has served as the prestige form for some time.

   • 1981, Jerzy Rubach, Cyclic Phonology and Palatalization in Polish and English, Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, OCLC 9557130, page 57:

     The 3rd person plural -ą ending is phonetically [ow̃] or [om], depending on the dialect. However, [ow̃] is the prestige form.

Verb

prestige (third-person singular simple present prestiges, present participle prestiging, simple past and past participle prestiged)

1. (video games) To start over at an earlier point in a video game with some type of bonus or reward.
   • 2002 July 15, Mark Green, “help in creating prestige class: Sharpshooter”, in rec.games.frp.dnd, Usenet:

     This seriously depends on the prerequisites, but most chars will already have a +1 bow by the time they're thinking of prestiging - or will this stack with the equipment's magic?

   • 2010 December 3, Chris Stevens, “PWG 20101203 - The deja double”, in uk.games.video.misc, Usenet:

     I'm going to try to stop and move onto a different game once I've prestiged, but the credits/equipment buying arrangement will make prestiging much less of a crippling shock than in previous games, so I may well be stuck playing it for a long time to come.

   • 2013, Brent Kice, “Perceptions of Control: Open World Formats v. Online Multiplayer First Person Shooters”, in Matthew Wysocki, editor, Ctrl-Alt-Play: Essays on Control in Video Gaming, McFarland & Company, page 154:

     However, Treyarch crafts a narrative of leveling up when a player attempts to prestige. The player is stripped of most un-lockable game features and must re-earn them with the ability to repeat this process 15 times. Prestiging allows the empty narrative of online multiplayer first person shooters to continue on a much grander scale.

   • 2014 April 1, Man of Kent, “Monday, innit”, in uk.games.video.misc, Usenet:

     Reached level 50 and prestiged which I have never had the inclination to do in any game before.

   • 2018, Adam Kramarzewski; Ennio De Nucci, Practical Game Design, Packt, page 420:

     Prestiging itself is a concept popularized by Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, where players can reset their in-game progress after reaching the maximum experience level, and receive a cosmetic token in exchange.

See also

• new game plus

Further reading

• prestige in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• prestige in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• prestige at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French prestige, from Latin praestigium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌprɛsˈtiː.ʒə/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: pres‧ti‧ge
• Rhymes: -iːʒə

Noun

prestige n (uncountable)

1. prestige

Derived terms

• prestigekwestie
• prestigeproject
• prestigieus

Descendants

• → Indonesian: prestise

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin praestigium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁɛs.tiʒ/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

prestige m (plural prestiges)

1. prestige

   de prestige ― prestigious

Derived terms

• prestigieux

Descendants

• → Czech: prestiž
• → Danish: prestige
• → English: prestige
• → German: Prestige
• → Polish: prestiż
• → Russian: прести́ж (prestíž)
• → Serbo-Croatian: prȅstīž, пре̏стӣж
• → Swedish: prestige
• → Turkish: prestij

Further reading

• “prestige”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Swedish

Etymology

From French prestige.

Noun

prestige c

1. prestige

Declension

Declension of prestige
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	prestige	prestigen	—	—
Genitive	prestiges	prestigens	—	—

Related terms

• prestigelös