Translation

[bunnykinz]

My husband has just started a new job and on the building above the enterance is "semper naviter populorum". The building has been there for a very long time, so it won't bear any relevance to what the shop is now. The owner does'nt know so I think hubbie want's to impress ;) Thanks

[Jules001]

semper means always or at all times in Latin, but can't trace the other two words sorry - are they correct?

[New Forester]

Struggling to remember my Latin O-level (failed...), populorum ought to be "of the people".  Naviter could perhaps have something to do with nativity?  "Always midwife of the people..."?  Clear as mud.

[iwantthatone]

From what I can find...

Semper = Always, Ever

Naviter = Energy, Get up and go

Populorum = Assembled, Many, Present

Make of that what you like....I'm guessing something along the lines of an 'Always energy present' type thing..! =)

[Octavius]

Yeah I got that too:

Always energise the people.

Perhaps it was an old Fitness First!

[New Forester]

Populorum is definitely possessive, so I think that makes it something like "Ever the energy of the nation"  (I thought midwife seemed unlikely)

 

I think it's a slogan for an energy drink...

[bunnykinz]

Update.....hubby informs me that the words are on the front of the premises....the premises being a Funeral Directors!!

[Hgrove]

Naviter should be an adverb in latin.  I do not have a dictionary to hand unfortunately.  

[Sludge]

I wonder if the "t" is in fact a "g", then it would make sense as "Always carrying the people".

[maxi29]

As New Forester correctly points out, populorum is a genitive plural, of the people. And semper is always and naviter is an adverb, energetically: so should be a verb there somewhere - is that definitely all the inscription says? Could there have been other words removed?

[Quizmonster]

"Always - enthusiastically - of the people." In other words, "We just adore serving you, the public!"

[Peter Pedant]

Yeah I get QM's

always zealously of the people

The building's been recycled, hasnt it? I mean it didnt start off as a funeral director's?