It depends.
1. It is a French Caribbean creole word for cassava bread.
http://www.fao.org/docrep/x5415e/x5415e05.htm
2. It is used adjectivally in the scientific terms for certain plant bacteria, and a type of butterfly. This is the only relevant Latin use.
http://www.isppweb.org/names_bacterial_xant2005.asp
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/butterflies/neotropica/reprints/2001WCH_AR.pdf
3. The idea that it is a Latin plural for this root tuber is ludicrous.
a) Cassava originates in the Americas
b) Latin is the language of the Romans and was used subsequently by scholars.
c) By the time of the discovery of the Americas, in 1492, nations used their own languages (Portugal dropped Latin as an official language in 1296.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin
d) The words cassava derives from the language of the Taino (a now extinct Amerindian tribe). It was called caçábi by the Taino, and the Spanish explorers adapted it as cazabe.
e) Modern Latin-based languages have a word for it that is dissimilar to cassava:
(i) Portuguese - mandioca, aipim, or macaxeira;
(ii) Spanish - yuca or mandioca;
(iii) French - manioc.
f) The scientific term for cassava is manihot esculenta crantz.
g) It may not even have a plural form, but rather be an uncountable like rice, bread, maize.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassava
2007-01-05 05:20:05
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answer #1
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answered by ♫ Rum Rhythms ♫ 7
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the plural of cassava is cassavae in latin language
2007-01-07 06:35:14
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answer #2
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answered by montathra 4
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Cassavae is the plural of cassava (latin)
2007-01-04 23:48:36
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answer #3
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answered by Anonymous
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It could be ~Latin, or old English, as both languages form their plurals in a similar way.
2007-01-05 00:30:33
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answered by Katie C 3
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Sounds like Latin-ified (for want of a better phrase!) English to me. ae is the old fashioned pluralisation of a word.
2007-01-04 23:49:25
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answer #5
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answered by kpk 5
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Aur = And Aur = More
2016-05-23 05:32:15
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answered by Anonymous
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I thing,no exist anyone.
2007-01-06 02:22:24
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answered by NEOSHET 6
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