Quid sum? (What am I?) Latin writing game

[Pacifica]

The music is the Hymn to Joy but I'm not sure the lyrics are called that too.

 

[Bitmap]

Yes, I'm the Hymn to Joy

 

[Bitmap]

... carmen laetitiae deditum?!

 

[Pacifica]

Carmen in laudem laetitiae?

 

[Bitmap]

Carmen in laudem laetitiae?

Yeah. Sounds good.

 

[Matthaeus]

Yes, I'm the Hymn to Joy

Actually, it's ode to Joy.

 

[Pacifica]

Dura de caelo cado, terrestria minutis ictibus tundo. Quid sum?

 

[Bitmap]

Grando? (Hail)

 

[Pacifica]

Yes.

 

[john abshire]

Dura de caelo cado, terrestria minutis ictibus tundo. Quid sum?

Is dura an adjective describing “I”?

 

[Pacifica]

Yes.

 

[john abshire]

Yes.

Hard I fall from the sky, beating with small terrestrial strokes.
??

 

[Pacifica]

Terrestria doesn't agree with ictibus.

 

[john abshire]

Terrestria doesn't agree with ictibus.

I presumed it would be “beating the ground with small strokes.” , but terrestris, e is an adjective (in my dictionary).
?
(Edit) Adding to confusion terrestria should be neuter plural, I think. I also couldn’t make terrestria work as an adverb. (edit again) as terrestrially.

 

[Pacifica]

Terrestria is a neuter plural adjective, here substantivized, i.e. used as a noun would be, meaning "terrestrial things".

 

[john abshire]

Terrestria is a neuter plural adjective, here substantivized, i.e. used as a noun would be, meaning "terrestrial things".

I learned two things with this sentence.
An adjective can be used “on its own” to describe a noun contained in a verb (e.g. dura), and an adjective in neuter gender can be used to imply an inanimate noun, e.g. terrestria.
Thanks

 

[john abshire]

Glacie et aqua moventi formor.
Videri et audiri semper non possum.
Ubi videri possum, silens aut sonorissimus sum. (Edit: changed verb to sum)
Altissimus plerumque sum.
Quid sum?

(Would someone please translate the Latin so I know it is correct)

 

[john abshire]

Glacie et aqua moventi formor.
Videri et audiri semper non possum.
Ubi videri possum, silens aut sonorissimus sum. (Edit: changed verb to sum)
Altissimus plerumque sum.
Quid sum?

(Would someone please translate the Latin so I know it is correct)

Hint: Grandine gracieque moventi plerumque formor.
In caelo videri possum.

 

[Bitmap]

Are you a cloud? (nubis)

 

[john abshire]

Are you a cloud? (nubis)

Nope
Intra nebulas interdum videor.
(I am using nebulas for cloud vs nubis, assuming they have the same meaning)