As Mentioned in Episode 40 – Give Them Something to Fight (With G. Willow Wilson)

As a fellow language geek, I’d go easy easy on them with the Latin pronunciation notes. Someone whose main education derives from Classical studies is going to have a different frame of reference from someone whose frame of reference is Ecclesiastical Latin, which is highly influenced by modern Italian conventions of pronunciation. In fact, even among Academic Latin, there’s room for variation depending on regional language or dialect or that of those who taught us (sidebar: my French can sometimes sound very Polish for just that reason). Your given pronunciation of “aquila,” with its last syllable pronounced as a “ya” instead of a “la” definitely suggested that you’re from a Spanish speaking region/country well before I got that far down the thread. Plus given the fact that Nova Roma was isolated from the rest of civilization for 2000 years, lingual drift makes the nitpickery of dead language pronunciation within the context of a fictional universe a rather silly venture.