orison — a noun meaning “prayer”
oraciόn — the Spanish cognate that means “prayer”
At first glance these two may not seem like cognates, but they both come to us from Latin’s oration, meaning “prayer,” which comes from the verb orare, which means “to plead, to speak, to pray.”’
In English, we have the word “oration,” which is…
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