papacy
‘position, rank, or authority of a pope’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. papassie, papacye, pepecy < Med.Lat. papatia ‘papal office’ < La.Lat. papa ‘pope’ < Ch.Lat. papa ‘bishop, pope,’ ‘father’ < Gk. papas ‘patriarch, bishop,’ ‘father,’ similar to pappa ‘o father,’ pappas ‘father,’ pappos ‘grandfather < paypuh < Tamil appā