to reign — the verb meaning “to possess sovereign power; to rule”
reinar — the Spanish cognate of the same meaning
These words come to us from the Latin word for king, rex. That word became indelibly seared into my brain after I visited the Pantheon of El Escorial in Spain where many of Spain’s past kings are interred t…
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