Expert: Maria - 7/29/2010

Question
I would like to translate "Our journey." and "Our adventure." into Latin. I want to have one of the two engraved on a silver bracelet which I will give to my girlfriend on her birthday. The idea is that the two of us are on a journey/adventure through life together, so perhaps there is a more poetic way of phrasing it in Latin.

Answer
Hello,

The literal translation of both "Our journey" and "Our adventure” is “Iter nostrum”.

Anyway I would like better to say:

-“Iter una faciamus!” (literally, “May we travel together!”) as this Latin phrase conveys just the idea that  you two are on a journey/adventure through life together.

Best regards,
Maria
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Note that:

-Our = NOSTRUM (nominative neuter of the possessive NOSTER agreed with ITER)

-journey/ adventure= ITER( nominative of the neuter noun ITER, 3rd.declension)
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-May we  travel = ITER (journey/adventure) FACIAMUS (1st.person plural, hortatory subjunctive of the verb FACIO).Note that ITER FACERE means "to travel".

-together = UNA (adverb)

As you can see, Latin word order can be different from English as Latin is an inflected language where syntactical relationships are indicated by the endings of each term, not by the order of the words.