[thaumasiotes]

> I prefer the traditional English pronunciation of Latin (so "caveat" is "kay-vee-it").

...That's not an example of the traditional English pronunciation of Latin. The traditional English pronunciation of Latin caveat would have /kæ/ (TRAP vowel) in the first syllable, not /keɪ/ (FACE vowel).

> when a vowel is followed by a single consonant (or by a cluster of p, t, c/k plus l, r) and then another vowel [...]

> [such a vowel bearing stress in any syllable other than the penultima] is closed and the vowel is short [unless the vowel is U].

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_English_pronunciat... )

/'ka.ʋɛ.at/ -> /'kæv.i.ət/