praestigium
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Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Two suppositions:
- praestinguō (“to obscure, extinguish”).
- praestringō (“to blind; to blindfold; to dazzle or confuse someone”)
Noun
[edit]praestīgium n (genitive praestīgiī or praestīgī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | praestīgium | praestīgia |
Genitive | praestīgiī praestīgī1 |
praestīgiōrum |
Dative | praestīgiō | praestīgiīs |
Accusative | praestīgium | praestīgia |
Ablative | praestīgiō | praestīgiīs |
Vocative | praestīgium | praestīgia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: prestigi
- English: prestige
- French: prestige
- Galician: prestixio
- Italian: prestigio
- Portuguese: prestígio
- Romanian: prestigiu
- Spanish: prestigio
References
[edit]- “praestigium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- praestigium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s 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