different between authority vs prestige

English

Alternative forms

• authourity, authoritie, autority, auctoritie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English auctorite, autorite (“authority, book or quotation that settles an argument”), from Old French auctorité, from Latin stem of auct?rit?s (“invention, advice, opinion, influence, command”), from auctor (“master, leader, author”). For the presence of the h, compare the etymology of author.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???????ti/, /???????ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??????ti/, /??????ti/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /???t???ti/
• Hyphenation: au?thor?i?ty
• Rhymes: -???ti

Noun

authority (countable and uncountable, plural authorities)

1. (uncountable) The power to enforce rules or give orders.
   • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V

     But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.

2. (used in singular or plural form) Persons in command; specifically, government.
3. (countable) A person accepted as a source of reliable information on a subject.
   • 1930 September 18, Albert Einstein, as quoted in Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (1988) by Banesh Hoffman

     To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.

4. Government-owned agency which runs a revenue-generating activity.

   New York Port Authority

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• have something on good authority

References

• authority at OneLook Dictionary Search
• authority in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• authority in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Alternative forms

• præstige (archaic)

Etymology

From French prestige (“illusion, fascination, enchantment, prestige”), from Latin praestigium (“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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??s?ti(d)?/, /p???sti(d)?/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /?p??st?d?/
• Rhymes: -i??, -i?d?

Noun

prestige (usually uncountable, plural prestiges)

1. The quality of how good the reputation of something or someone is, how favourably something or someone is regarded.

2. (obsolete, often preceded by "the") Delusion; illusion; trick.

Derived terms

• covert prestige
• overt prestige
• prestigious

See also

• prestigiousness

Translations

Adjective

prestige (not comparable)

1. (sociolinguistics, of a linguistic form) Regarded as relatively prestigious; often, considered the standard language or language variety, or a part of such a variety.

Further reading

• prestige in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• prestige in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• prestige at OneLook Dictionary Search

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French prestige, from Latin praestigium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pr?s?ti?.??/
• Hyphenation: pres?ti?ge
• Rhymes: -i???

Noun

prestige n (uncountable)

1. prestige

Derived terms

• prestigekwestie
• prestigeproject
• prestigieus

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: prestise

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin praestigium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??s.ti?/

Noun

prestige m (plural prestiges)

1. prestige

Derived terms

• prestigieux

Descendants

Further reading

• “prestige” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Etymology

From French prestige.

Noun

prestige c

1. prestige

Declension

Related terms

• prestigelös