prestige

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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.

75 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Southern Altai: тоомјы (toomǰï) — dignity, status, or esteem
• Arabic: سُمْعَة (sumʕa) — dignity, status, or esteem
• Arabic: كَرَامَة (karāma) — dignity, status, or esteem
• Arabic: سُمْعة (sumʕa) — dignity, status, or esteem
• Arabic: هِيبة (hība) — dignity, status, or esteem
• Arabic: برستيج (bristīj. pristīj) — dignity, status, or esteem
• Asturian: prestixu — dignity, status, or esteem
• Belarusian: прэсты́ж (prestýž) — dignity, status, or esteem
• Belarusian: аўтарытэ́т (awtarytét) — dignity, status, or esteem
• Bulgarian: прести́ж (prestíž) — dignity, status, or esteem
• Bulgarian: авторите́т (avtoritét) — dignity, status, or esteem
• Catalan: prestigi — dignity, status, or esteem
• Chinese Mandarin: 威信 (wēixìn) — dignity, status, or esteem
• Chinese Mandarin: 威望 (wēiwàng) — dignity, status, or esteem
• Chinese Mandarin: 名譽 /名誉 (míngyù) — dignity, status, or esteem
• Czech: prestiž — dignity, status, or esteem
• Danish: anseelse — dignity, status, or esteem
• Danish: prestige — dignity, status, or esteem
• Dutch: aanzien — dignity, status, or esteem
• Dutch: prestige — dignity, status, or esteem
• Esperanto: prestiĝo — dignity, status, or esteem
• Estonian: prestiiž — dignity, status, or esteem
• Faroese: mæti — dignity, status, or esteem
• Faroese: tign — dignity, status, or esteem
• Finnish: maine — dignity, status, or esteem
• Finnish: arvovalta — dignity, status, or esteem
• French: prestige — dignity, status, or esteem
• Galician: prestixio — dignity, status, or esteem
• Georgian: პრესტიჟი (ṗresṭiži) — dignity, status, or esteem
• Georgian: ავტორიტეტი (avṭoriṭeṭi) — dignity, status, or esteem
• Georgian: რეპუტაცია (reṗuṭacia) — dignity, status, or esteem
• German: Prestige — dignity, status, or esteem
• German: Ansehen — dignity, status, or esteem
• German: Geltung — dignity, status, or esteem
• German: Wertschätzung — dignity, status, or esteem
• Hindi: प्रतिष्ठा (pratiṣṭhā) — dignity, status, or esteem
• Hungarian: presztízs — dignity, status, or esteem
• Indonesian: prestise — dignity, status, or esteem
• Indonesian: gengsi — dignity, status, or esteem
• Italian: prestigio — dignity, status, or esteem
• Japanese: 名誉 (meiyo) — dignity, status, or esteem
• Japanese: 威信 (ishin) — dignity, status, or esteem
• Korean: 위신 (wisin) — dignity, status, or esteem
• Korean: 명망 (myeongmang) — dignity, status, or esteem
• Korean: 명예 (myeong'ye) — dignity, status, or esteem
• Latvian: prestižs — dignity, status, or esteem
• Lithuanian: prestižas — dignity, status, or esteem
• Malay: prestij — dignity, status, or esteem
• Māori: whakahirahiratanga — dignity, status, or esteem
• Norwegian Bokmål: prestisje — dignity, status, or esteem
• Persian: اعتبار (e'tebâr) — dignity, status, or esteem
• Persian: پرستیژ (prestiž) — dignity, status, or esteem
• Polish: prestiż — dignity, status, or esteem
• Portuguese: prestígio — dignity, status, or esteem
• Romanian: prestigiu — dignity, status, or esteem
• Russian: прести́ж (prestíž) — dignity, status, or esteem
• Russian: авторите́т (avtoritét) — dignity, status, or esteem
• Serbo-Croatian: пре̏стӣж — dignity, status, or esteem
• Serbo-Croatian: prȅstīž — dignity, status, or esteem
• Shan: မုၼ် (mǔn) — dignity, status, or esteem
• Slovak: prestíž — dignity, status, or esteem
• Slovene: prestiž — dignity, status, or esteem
• Spanish: prestigio — dignity, status, or esteem
• Spanish: prestancia — dignity, status, or esteem
• Swedish: anseende — dignity, status, or esteem
• Swedish: prestige — dignity, status, or esteem
• Thai: เกียรติภูมิ (gìiat-dtì-puum) — dignity, status, or esteem
• Turkish: itibar — dignity, status, or esteem
• Turkish: prestij — dignity, status, or esteem
• Ottoman Turkish: اعتبار (i’tibâr) — dignity, status, or esteem
• Ukrainian: прести́ж (prestýž) — dignity, status, or esteem
• Ukrainian: авторите́т (avtorytét) — dignity, status, or esteem
• Vietnamese: uy tín — dignity, status, or esteem
• Vietnamese: thanh thế — dignity, status, or esteem
• Volapük: prästig — dignity, status, or esteem