prestige

• n. 名声、評判、名声
• n.（威信）人名；（英）Prestige

フランス語のprestige, 欺瞞, 策略, 錯覚, 呪術, ラテン語のpraestigium, 錯覚, 呪術から, (praestringereからの異化) praestringere, 目くらまし, 目眩まし, prae, in front of, stringere, 引っ張る, ロープを引っ張る, 縛る, ひもを使った語源.ナポレオン皇帝は大道芸人のようで、侮蔑的、皮肉的な意味を含んでいたが、ナポレオンを崇拝する人が増えるにつれて、侮蔑的な意味から肯定的な意味に変化し、元の語義は使われなくなった。

prestige

prestige: [17] As opponents of semantic change are fond of pointing out, prestige once meant ‘trick, illusion’, and its use until the 19th century was usually derogatory. It comes via French prestige from Latin praestigiae ‘illusions produced by a conjurer or juggler’, an alteration of an unrecorded *praestrigiae. This would have been a derivative of praestringere ‘blindfold’, hence ‘confuse the sight, dazzle’, a compound verb formed from the prefix prae- ‘before’ and stringere ‘bind’ (source of English strict). The modern approbatory meaning appears to have been reintroduced from French.
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prestige (n.)

1650s, "trick," from French prestige (16c.) "deceit, imposture, illusion" (in Modern French, "illusion, magic, glamour"), from Latin praestigium "delusion, illusion" (see prestigious). Derogatory until 19c.; sense of "dazzling influence" first applied 1815, to Napoleon.

1. It was his responsibility for foreign affairs that gained him international prestige .

彼は外交事務の処理を担当する過程で国際的な名声を勝ち取った。

2.Their prestige went sky high.

彼らは名声が高い。

3.There is a lot of prestige attached to owning a car like this.

このような車を持っていると立派に見えます。

4.Their products enjoy ever higher prestige in the world market.

彼らの製品は世界市場でますます高く評価されている。

5.The contract will affect our national prestige in the world.

この契約は我が国の国際的な人気に影響を与える。