English to Latin Translation?

Question

For a tattoo, I submitted the following phrase to Applied Language Solutions to be translated: "Wherever the journey leads, may the path home forever shine." They responded with "Quolibet ducit iter, possit dumum iter lucere semper." I've tried to look up the meaning of individual words and can't find all of them. I am desperate to get a second opinion from another latin Scholar...please help. I don't want latin gibberish forever written on my chest.

Answer 1

Okay... here is my crack at it:

Quolibet adv. Anywhere you please
ducit v. leads
iter n. journey/ trip
possit v. be able to
domum n. home
semper adv. always
lucere v. shine

I don't think Quolibet captures the meaning of "wherever" that you are trying to convey. I would go with Quacumque (wherever, by whatever way) or Ubicumque (wherever, anywhere).

Other than that, the word choices, grammar and syntax appear right to me (domum is in accusative place to which; possum is in the present subjuntive mood for command "may it, let it be able to...".) Subbing in one of my choices to replace "quolibet", here is what I have for a literal translation:

Wherever the journey leads, let the journey (to) home always be able to shine.

PS I posted this, and then saw Caicos's answer, I agree... "luceat" is more efficient than using possum.

Answer 2

"Whithersoever the journey leads, may [dumum] the journey/path be able to shine always/forever."

Dumum doesn't mean a thing to me. I suspect it is a typo for "domum". There's no excuse for that sort of mistake.

It all seems very heavy handed. They could have made it simpler: "Quolibet ducit iter, luceat iter domum semper." "Whithersoever the journey leads, may the journey/path home always shine."

Answer 3

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