praestigium

Latin

Alternative forms

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

  1. delusion, illusion
  2. magic trick

Declension

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

  • → 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’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
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