cachet: [17] Cachet was a Scottish borrowing of a French word which originally meant ‘seal affixed to a letter or document’. In the 19th century this developed into the figurative ‘personal stamp, distinguishing characteristic’, which, through its use in the context of distinguished or fashionable people or things, has come to mean ‘prestige’. The original notion contained in the word is of ‘pressing’.
It comes via the medieval French verb cacher ‘press’ from Latin coactāre ‘constrain’. This was a derivative of coact-, the past participial stem of cōgere ‘drive together’ (source of English cogent), a compound verb formed from con- ‘together’ and agere ‘drive’ (source of English act and a host of other derivatives from agent to prodigal).
Modern French cacher means ‘hide’, which is the source of cache ‘hoard’, borrowed by English in the 19th century. => cache, cogent
cachet (n.)
1630s, Scottish borrowing of French cachet "seal affixed to a letter or document" (16c.), from Old French dialectal cacher "to press, crowd," from Latin coactare "constrain" (see cache). Meaning evolving through "(letter under) personal stamp (of the king)" to "prestige." Compare French lettre de cachet "letter under seal of the king."
例文
1. The social cachet of some form of qualification in India is powerful.
インドでは、ある資格を持って大きな社会的威信を持っています。
2.A Mercedes carries a certain cachet .
メルセデス車は尊いものを表している。
3.Federal courts have a certain cachet which state courts lack.
連邦裁判所には州裁判所に欠けている特別なものがある。
4.Her success in business had earned her a certain cachet in society.
彼女の事業は成功し、一定の社会的人気を得た。
5.In the world of jewelry，the Cartier name has long-standing cachet .