prestige

The story

1. Latin · derived frompraestīgium“a delusion, an illusion”
2. French · borrowed fromprestige“illusion, fascination, enchantment, prestige”
3. English todayprestige

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