## Meanings
1. Respect and admiration gained through success, position, or wealth.
2. The level of respect or good reputation that something or someone has.
3. Having or giving high status; considered the standard or most respected form.

## Examples
- Studying at that university gives students great prestige.
- The award added to the prestige of her career.
- He spoke the prestige variety of the language used in business.

## Derived Forms
- masstige
- nonprestige
- prestigeful
- prestigeless

## Related Forms
- prestigious
- prestigiousness

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: prestige
- Root: praestīgium

## 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.

## AI Etymology
Prestige comes 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. In present-day English it covers respect and admiration gained through success, position, or wealth, the level of respect or good reputation that something or someone has, and having or giving high status; considered the standard or most respected form. The wider family includes derived forms such as masstige, nonprestige, prestigeful, prestigeless and related forms such as prestigious, prestigiousness.

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