You'll never walk alone

[Pacifica]

Vadere is a little more specific than ambulare (see def.). About unus vs. solus, it was just a feeling that the latter looked better in this context, but I may well be wrong.

 

[Abbatiſſæ Scriptor]

Better to use the original language.

If it isn't known this is the motto of the Celtic football club, meaning that none of our brothers will ever have to be alone

What is the original language?

 

[Aurifex]

Better to use the original language.
What is the original language?

English.

 

[Shaft120]

Hi, I'm getting married and would like to create a family crest, and embroider a couple of our wedding outfits with a motto in Latin. I was thinking of a play on the lyric, you will never walk alone. There were several suggestions and translations on this varying in masculine / feminine attribution to either a singular or multiple entity. I'd found ”numquam solus incedere", as one possible, but would like to get this right in the context of what I am doing here, so any suggestions would be most helpful!

Thanks

 

[AndrewEarthrise]

There are a couple ways of saying "never walk alone"

Nunquam solus/a ambulare
Numquam solus/a vadere
Numquam solus/a ire

Ire and vadere both also mean "to go"; if you want to alone to be masculine, it is "solus", for feminine, "sola".

 

[Shaft120]

Hmm - thanks for the tip. Several options . I'm not sure which of either masculine or feminine should apply here - I've also found:

Numquam solus ambulabis
or
Numquam soli ambulabitis
or
Soli Numquam vadetis

As suggested alternatives. As this would be applying to a statement of assertion as in a family motto - what would be the best version to use do you think? It needs to represent a promise to each other as much as anything else I suppose, but something that our children can aspire to as well.

Thanks for all your help with this. I dropped out of latin to study classics at 11! serves me right....

 

[AndrewEarthrise]

Well if it is a motto for the whole family, "Numquam soli vadetis" or "Numquam soli ambulabitis" sound optimal to me, as they are plural.

Ambulabitis: You (pl.) will walk
Vadetis: You (pl.) will go/walk

It is your choice.

 

[Shaft120]

Great - thanks for your assistance!