The view that Juno was the feminine counterpart to Genius, i.e. that as men possess a tutelary entity or "double" named genius, so women have their own one named "juno", has been maintained by many scholars, lastly Kurt Latte. In the past it has also been argued that goddess Juno herself would be the issue of a process of abstraction from the individual "junos" of every woman. According to Georg Wissowa and K. Latte, Genius (from the root "gen-", whence "gigno" bear or be born, archaic also "geno") would designate the specific virile generative potency, as opposed to feminine nature, reflected in conception and delivery, under the tutelage of Juno Lucina. Such an interpretation has been critically reviewed by Walter F. Otto.