Definition of "genitor" [gen•i•tor]

• One who produces or creates. (noun)
• Anthropology A natural father or mother. (noun)

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• "Unlike English, Latin has two words for 'father': genitor, meaning 'begetter', and pater, meaning 'father' in a spiritually fuller sense."
• "Thus, the female husband had rights to the domestic services of her "wife" and was the legitimate "father" of the wife's offspring, regardless of who the genitor might be."
• "Most of the pieces are of secular origin, but the Codex also has arrangements for organ of the Mass Cunctipotens genitor Deus."