To be pedantic, ae is a diphthong in Latin that sounds more like the ‘i’ in ‘fine’. It was definitely never pronounced with a long e in Latin. Even ‘demon’ in

To be pedantic, ae is a diphthong in Latin that sounds more like the ‘i’ in ‘fine’. It was definitely never pronounced with a long e in Latin. Even ‘demon’ in Latin would have been pronounced with a long a sound.