Expert: Maria - 2/28/2008

Question
I have come up with a personal motto, and would like it translated into Latin.  I took a couple years of Latin in high school, but I don't trust my own efforts thus far.  I was hoping you could help me out and translate "Let truth be my light."  Thanks.

Answer
Hello,

Here’s the translation you asked me:

-“Sit veritas lux mea”
or with a different word order:
-"Veritas lux sit mea".

Best regards,
Maria
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Note that:
-Let... be  = SIT (3rd.person singular, hortatory subjunctive in the present of SUM).

-Truth= VERITAS (nominative, 3rd.declension)

-my = MEA (nominative feminine of the possessive MEUS, agreed with LUX)

-light = LUX (nominative, 3rd.declension)

Latin word order can be variable as it often depends on writing style of an author. This however is not a problem  as Latin declension by cases  gets everyone to  discern the case of a word.