prestige 的詞源

1650年代，“詭計，幻覺，騙局”（現已過時的意義），源自法語 prestige（16世紀）“欺騙，騙局，幻覺”（在現代法語中，“幻覺，魔法，魅力”），源自拉丁語 praestigium “欺騙，幻覺”（參見 prestigious）。

從大約1815年開始，它被用於“對個人價值或重要性的幻覺，一種令人愉悅的幻覺”的意義，因此，積極地，“卓越，重要性或權威的聲譽”，這些意義可能是從法語引入的，通常指拿破崙：

When the same question was put to those who knew him and France best, they answered, 'that a peace dictated in France would have undone him ;'—'that his throne was founded on public opinion,' and 'that if the prestige,' for so they called it, 'of his glory were to be destroyed, the state of his affairs, and the character of the French people forbade him to expect that his power would long survive it.' ["Memoirs of Bonaparte's Deposition," Quarterly Review, Oct. 1814] 

當同樣的問題被提出給那些最瞭解他和法國的人時，他們回答說，“在法國和平 dictated 將會毀掉他”； “他的王位建立在公衆輿論之上”，“如果他的榮耀之 prestige”，他們這樣稱呼它，“被摧毀，他的事務狀況和法國人民的性格將不允許他期望他的權力能夠長久地存續下去。”【《波拿巴廢黜的回憶錄》，季度評論，1814年10月】