authorize
‘to grant authority or power’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. auttorise, auctoryse, autorize, authoriss, aucthorize, authorise < O.F. autoriser, auctoriser ‘authorize, give authority to’ < Med.Lat. auctorizare < Lat. auctor ‘promoter, producer, father, progenitor; builder, founder; trustworthy writer, authority; historian; performer, doer; responsible person, teacher’ < augere ‘to increase’ < aw < aug- < Tamil ākutal