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

[john abshire]

Basically, the passive idea is in the participle or gerundive, not in the verb "to be"/sum.

I understand as well as I can for now. Thanks.

Next clue;
Pluvia prima, post tempestatem quae me formavit, me non refrigeraverit.
(The subjunctive verb is meant to mean “would” refrigeravit)

 

[john abshire]

Clues one and two
Abhinc decies millies milia annorum inventa sum probabilissime post tempestatem.
Noxissima possum esse etiamsi saepe oleri praecipuo addor.
Clue 3
Pluvia prima, post tempestatem, quae me formavit, me non refrigeraverit.
(The subjunctive verb is meant to mean “would” refrigeravit)??
Clue 4
saepissimus pars intra glutenem denti sum.
(Edited Sunday morning, inserted "intra" and changed the case for gluten and dens)
Clue 5
Si post tempestatem colligam, manum inventoris uram.
Quid sum?

Duos dies indicio non dare potero.
Itura piscandum sum

 

[john abshire]

Clues one and two
Abhinc decies millies milia annorum inventa sum probabilissime post tempestatem.
Noxissima possum esse etiamsi saepe oleri praecipuo addor.
Clue 3
Pluvia prima, post tempestatem, quae me formavit, me non refrigeraverit.
(The subjunctive verb is meant to mean “would” refrigeravit)??
Clue 4
saepissimus pars intra glutenem denti sum.
(Edited Sunday morning, inserted "intra" and changed the case for gluten and dens)
Clue 5
Si post tempestatem colligam, manum inventoris uram.
Quid sum?

Duos dies indicio non dare potero.
Itura piscandum sum

A piscando rediit.

Next clue (clue 6)
Quandocumque pulvis puteolis ad me addit, sub aqua durare possum.

 

[Adrian]

calcium ?

 

[john abshire]

calcium ?

I am not an element (on periodic table).

Clue 7- A saxo sum et ad saxum redeo.

 

[john abshire]

I am not an element (on periodic table).

A saxo sum et ad saxum redeo.

Clue 8- Partem impigram intra gloriosissimum tectum in Roma sum.

 

[john abshire]

Clue 8- Partem impigram intra gloriosissimum tectum in Roma sum.

Clue 9- etiam solum acidum compensare possum.

 

[meisenimverbis]

Well, maybe not; I took the things I wrote from Latin Vicipaedia's remarks:
https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffa

If not giraffa, which would be the word, because there were 'giraffae' in the circus, at least once (I don't remember where I read it, but I did read it somewhere... ).

 

[john abshire]

calcium ?

Calcium is close enough.
I am lime, calx.

 

[Adrian]

Nullae mihi sunt alae attamen volo
Nulli sunt mihi oculi at nonnumquam fleo

Tenebrae me sequuntur ubicumque venio

Quid sum?

 

[Pacifica]

A cloud (nubes)?

 

[Adrian]

Ita est.

 

[john abshire]

Nullae mihi sunt alae attamen volo
Nulli sunt mihi oculi at nonnumquam fleo

Tenebrae me sequuntur ubicumque venio

Quid sum?

There are not anything to me, but yet I am willing [alae=wing?].
There are not anything to me, but then sometimes I weep (oculi = eyes?).
Darkness follows me wherever I go.
Am I close?

 

[Pacifica]

There are not anything to me, but yet I am willing [alae=wing?].
There are not anything to me, but then sometimes I weep (oculi = eyes?).

You can see that nullae agrees with alae and nulli agrees with oculi.

There are no wings to me (= I have no wings), and yet I fly. (This volo is from volare, "to fly", not velle, "to want".)
There are no eyes to me (= I have no eyes) but I sometimes weep.

 

[Pacifica]

Note that ubicumque isn't strictly correct here. It should be quocumque. Ubicumque = "wherever" in a locative sense, "in whatever place"; quocumque = "wherever" with motion, "to whatever place".

 

[john abshire]

You can see that nullae agrees with alae and nulli agrees with oculi.

There are no wings to me (= I have no wings), and yet I fly. (This volo is from volare, "to fly", not velle, "to want".)
There are no eyes to me (= I have no eyes) but I sometimes weep.

The nullae/ allae, and nulli/ oculi are in each case separated by sunt, and I thought were in separate clauses (so couldn’t go together). so I did not try to make them fit.
If I had, it’s still an odd phrasing, or is this the way to say “I have no wings”?

 

[Adrian]

@john abshire
there are many ways to express "I have no wings" - dative of possesion e.g. Nullae mihi sunt alae/ alae mihi desunt / alas non habeo / nullas alas habeo / alis careo etc.

 

[Pacifica]

If I had, it’s still an odd phrasing, or is this the way to say “I have no wings”?

It is one way to say it. Every heard of the dative of possession?

 

[john abshire]

It is one way to say it. Every heard of the dative of possession?

It sounds familiar, Probably from uses of dative I found recently.

 

[Pacifica]

A dative of possession, properly speaking, is when you have a noun or pronoun in the dative denoting the owner of a thing, while the thing possessed is found as the subject of a form of sum, the whole being equivalent in meaning to English "X has Y".

Example:

Publio duo filii sunt.

Literally, this means "To Publius two sons are". That is, two sons exist for Publius, two sons exist as a "possession" (in a very broad sense) of Publius's: what you would express in idiomatic English as "Publius has two sons".