Genius (plural: Geniti) (Creative Force, Guardian Spirit) Roman The spirit that attended a man from birth until death.
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Genius (plural: Geniti) (Creative Force, Guardian Spirit) Roman The spirit that attended a man from birth until death. (A Juno spirit accompanied a woman.) The genius determined the person's character, happiness, and fortune. The genius was the source of creativity; hence the word genius is used to describe an exceptionally talented person. In some accounts, each person was thought to have both a good and a bad genius. Bad luck was the work of the evil genius. The plural of genius is genii. (The genie of Eastern mythology were jinns [fallen angels] and had nothing to do with the genii of Roman mythology.)
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