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

[Pacifica]

Me vitro simile sed pretiosius antiqui (mirum) credebant e glacie compressa fieri. Quid sum?

 

[Bitmap]

You're kind of similar to me, aren't you?

 

[Pacifica]

You're kind of similar to me, aren't you?

In some respects, yes.

 

[Bitmap]

I have super-no idea.

Are like beryl or something?

 

[Pacifica]

No.

Vitro simile sum, sine colore.

 

[Bitmap]

Were you thinking of the poem to the king of England?

Yes

 

[Bitmap]

I'm a bit stumped.

 

[Pacifica]

Not sure what hint I can give... Nomen meum e Graeco sumptum est.

 

[Bitmap]

So you're similar to glass in that you are transparent and the ancients thought you were made from compressed ice?

 

[Pacifica]

Yes.

 

[Bitmap]

No idea.

 

[Pacifica]

"C" littera incipio.

 

[Bitmap]

Are you a Chameleon?

 

[Pacifica]

No. (I wonder how you arrived at that idea.)

Nonnumquam ex me vasa et pocula fiunt.

 

[Bitmap]

No. (I wonder how you arrived at that idea.)

Because I have no idea.

 

[Pacifica]

"Cr" litteris incipio...

 

[Bitmap]

Are you a chrystal? crystallus?

 

[Pacifica]

Crystal in English, and I had the more common neuter form crystallum in mind (see the gender of the adjectives I used) but yes.

 

[Bitmap]

I'm sorry I'm dumb.

 

[Pacifica]

YOU ARE NOT DUMB