authority
‘one that is the power to enforce law, command, determine, judge’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. authoritee, authorytee, athoretye, authoryty < O.F. autorité, auctorité ‘authority, prestige, right, permission, dignity, gravity; the Scriptures’ < Lat. auctoritatem < auctoritas ‘invention, advice, opinion, influence, command’ < auctor ‘promoter, producer, father, progenitor; builder, founder; trustworthy writer, authority; historian; performer, doer; responsible person, teacher’ < augere ‘to increase’ < aw < aug- < Tamil ākutal