suffragan

The story

1. EL. · derived fromsuffrāgāneus<pos:a>
2. Old French · derived fromsuffragam
3. English todaysuffragan

From Anglo-Norman, Old French suffragam, from Ecclesiastical Latin suffrāgāneus (adjective), from suffrāgium (“vote, support, intercession”) + -āneus (“-aneous”). Doublet of suffraganean and suffraganeous, the learned (and adapted) borrowings from the Latin.