Sociolinguistics

La alternancia de lenguas no es falta de dominio is a sentence from this list, and el dominio is where English needs four words. Here it is command: el dominio del idioma, how much of a language somebody has. It is also the field — el dominio de la física, a domain of enquiry — and the address a website sits at, which English calls a domain too. It is the estate or dominion held by somebody. And de dominio público is in the public domain, free of copyright. Command, domain, dominion, public domain: one Spanish noun, and behind all four the same picture of something held and ruled over.