Daily Ancestorsusceptor
Susceptor is Latin for one who takes up the child at baptism: a godparent or baptismal sponsor; the plural is susceptores.
Susceptor comes from a verb meaning to take up or receive. In church Latin it came to mean a guardian, and in baptism registers it names the godparent; the plural susceptores means the sponsors.
Some registers use susceptores where others use patrini or levantes. They all point to the same thing: the people who stood for the child.
As seen in a recordSponsors in a Latin baptism entry
susceptores: Georgius Haas et Maria Haas
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