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[firecat]

can be translated into Latin as
amplectere potestem "et"

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and if anyone knows the dative genitive case of "et", let me know

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[firecat]

Hm, when I was researching this, I thought I found that one of the imperative forms of "amplector" was "amplectere."

[catzen.livejournal.com]

My Latin (such as it was ever was) is rusty, however...

::gets out his old Latin-German/German-Latin dictionary and flips to the page::

Amplector is one of the so-called deponentia, so "amplectere" is, I believe, the correct imperative form (3rd declination).

As to whether one could use "et" as a substantive when talking about it, the word, I'm not sure. I don't recall whether such things occurred in any of my (admittedly few) readings in Latin. It does happen colloquially in at least a few modern languages, though. (English and German I can personally vouch for, if memory serves. Although, when I consider my own usage, I think I tend to prefer to stick the German for "the word" in there somewhere. :-) )