patriarchy
‘a family, community, or society based on this system or governed by men’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. patriarchie < Gk. patriarkhia < patriarkhēs ‘male chief or head of a family’ < O.F. patriarche < La.Lat. patriarcha < Gk. patriarkhēs ‘chief or head of a family’ < patria ‘family, clan’ < pater ‘father’ + arkhein ‘to rule’ < payt < pəter- < Tamil appā