# prestige
## English
### Alternative forms

* præstige (archaic)

### Etymology

From French prestige (“illusion, fascination, enchantment, prestige”), from Latin praestīgium (“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: /pɹɛsˈtiːd͡ʒ/, /pɹɛsˈtiːʒ/, /pɹəsˈtiːd͡ʒ/, /pɹəsˈtiːʒ/
* (obsolete) IPA: /ˈpɹɛs.tɪd͡ʒ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːʒ, -iːdʒ

### Noun

prestige (usually uncountable, plural prestiges)
* 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.
* (obsolete, often preceded by "the") Delusion; illusion; trick.
** 1811, William Warburton, edited by Richard Hurd, The works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester, volume the ninth, London: Luke Hansard & Sons, →OCLC, 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

#### Descendants

* → Malay: prestij

#### See also

* prestigiousness

### Adjective

prestige (not comparable)
* (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, 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)
* (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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* “prestige”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
* “prestige”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French prestige, from Latin praestīgium.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌprɛsˈtiː.ʒə/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: pres‧ti‧ge
* Rhymes: -iːʒə

### Noun

prestige n (uncountable)
* prestige

#### Derived terms

* prestigekwestie
* prestigeproject
* prestigieus

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: prestise

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin praestīgium.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pʁɛs.tiʒ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

prestige m (plural prestiges)
* prestige
    de prestige ― prestigious

#### Derived terms

* prestigieux

#### Descendants

* → Czech: prestiž
* → Danish: prestige
* → Dutch: prestige
* → English: prestige
* → German: Prestige
* → Indonesian: prestise (via Dutch)
* → Malay: prestij (via English)
* → 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.

## Swedish
### Etymology

From French prestige.

### Noun

prestige c
* prestige

#### Related terms

* prestigelös

### References

* prestige in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* prestige in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* prestige in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)