1.   Also known as manioc or cassava, yuca is probably the most popular of Latin roots both in this country and the Caribbean.

2.   Exposure to jazz-fusion had resulted in a new sound, but still with Latin roots.

3.   Even the Germanic names in the region have Latin roots, points out Luigi Schiatti, a Bolzano councillor.

4.   Her father, with whom she has no contact, is Ecuadoran, and Aguilera wants to rediscover her Latin roots.

5.   Most seminaries today emphasize that a sermon, going back to the Latin root of that word, is a conversation.

6.   Next in line in the Latin root hit parade are malanga and taro, two members of the same family, which are virtually indistinguishable to the untrained eye.

7.   She told the pronouncer she thought quomodo came from a Latin root, and he said she was correct.

8.   Speaking of sweet potatoes, another of the Latin roots is the one that almost everyone outside the United States calls just that.

9.   Students like Stephanie Carrera, also an eighth grader, are particularly taken with all the new insults they have learned using Latin roots.

10.   Still, the Rolando Paulino families are not about to reject their Latin roots for the sake of avoiding controversy.