The story
- French · borrowed fromprestidigitation
- English todayprestidigitation
From French prestidigitation, from French preste (“nimble, quick”) + Latin digitus (“finger”) + French -ation (process suffix). The word has a different origin from prestige, even though this in the past has meant “delusion, illusion, trick”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.