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
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.
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?