praestigium
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).
| 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