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

Agrippa

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Re denuo perpensa de fructu te puto cogitare cui Britannicum nomen est datum kiwifruit vel Chinese gooseberry, sed timeo ne iterum errem…
 

john abshire

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Re denuo perpensa de fructu te puto cogitare cui Britannicum nomen est datum kiwifruit vel Chinese gooseberry, sed timeo ne iterum errem…
Semenem unicum habeo quod interiorem partem locator et diametrum digiti dimidii uni fere habet.
“I have a single seed which is located inside and it has a diameter of approximately one half digit.”
 
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Agrippa

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Semenem unicum habeo quod interiorem partem locator et diametrum digiti dimidii uni fere habet.
“I have a single seed which is located inside and it has a diameter of approximately one half digit.”
Excuse me please, I can't help correcting some mistakes :)
semen, seminis n. nom. = acc. > semen unicum habeo...
interiorem partem locator] praes. pass. locatur, but here perf. pass. locatum est: in interiore parte locatum est.
uni is dat. of unus, gen. uníus.
et diametrum] E. g.: Apud Columellam scriptum est: "cuius diametros, id est dimensio, habet pedes LXX" Cf. https://www.loebclassics.com/view/columella-agriculture/1941/pb_LCL407.19.xml?mainRsKey=DFZVlu
Semen unicum habeo, quod in interiore parte locatum est; cuius diametros, id est dimensio, habet dimidiatum fere digitum.
 

john abshire

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Excuse me please, I can't help correcting some mistakes :)
semen, seminis n. nom. = acc. > semen unicum habeo...
interiorem partem locator] praes. pass. locatur, but here perf. pass. locatum est: in interiore parte locatum est.
uni is dat. of unus, gen. uníus.
et diametrum] E. g.: Apud Columellam scriptum est: "cuius diametros, id est dimensio, habet pedes LXX" Cf. https://www.loebclassics.com/view/columella-agriculture/1941/pb_LCL407.19.xml?mainRsKey=DFZVlu
Semen unicum habeo, quod in interiore parte locatum est; cuius diametros, id est dimensio, habet dimidiatum fere digitum.
I wanted you to correct my mistakes, thank you.
I will return to this and study it, but for sake of the puzzle I have exceeded my time.
I am a cherry, cerasus, i (f).
The scientific name for cherry tree is prunus avium.

The floor is open.
 
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Per diem interdum sed noctu saepenumero viso
Fabulam privatissimam sum
Si aliquis alius me videre conatur, vanesco
Quid sum?
 

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Per diem interdum sed noctu saepenumero viso
Fabulam privatissimam sum
Si aliquis alius me videre conatur, vanesco
Quid sum?
I sometimes visit during the day but most often at night.
I am a very private story.
If someone else tries to see me, I disappear.
What am I?
Does this match my Latin and your corrections?
 

Pacifica

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I sometimes visit during the day but most often at night.
Then the verb shouldn't be passive, but viso sounds odd on its own like that without an object. Maybe add homines or so.

The rest matches.
 

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A dream (somnium)?
1- I sometimes visit during the day but most often at night.
Per diem interdum sed noctu saepenumero viso (?). visor, cernor (?)
did you think i meant to say "i am visited" =visor?
does viso=i visit, and is the sentence correct with viso?


2- I am a very private story.
Fabula privatissima sum

3- If someone else tries to see me, I disappear.
Si quis alius me videre conatur, vanesco

does the Latin match the english now?
 

Pacifica

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Belgium
Regis tactu sanari olim credebar. Quid sum?
 

Pacifica

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I'm a kind of evil, but a specific one, not "evil" in general.

"Evil" as a noun is neuter, BTW, malum.
 
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