centrepiece
‘something in a central position, especially a decorative object or arrangement placed at the center of a table’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E.centrepiece < center ‘middle point of a circle’ + piece < O.F. centre < Lat. centrum ‘center’ (the fixed point of the two points of a drafting compass) < Gk. kentron ‘sharp point, goad, sting of a wasp’ < kentein ‘stitch’ < sent < kent < Tamil kaṇṭam