And it is this everyday Latin from which modern Romance languages have descended, hence inheriting an SVO word order.
Although the most common pattern in classical Latin was SOV, what really matters is not the literary Latin of Cicero and Julius Caesar but the Latin “of the street.” This Vulgar Latin, which was spoken colloquially throughout the Roman Empire from the second century BC onward, happened to fix upon a different word order: SVO. And it is this everyday Latin from which modern Romance languages have descended, hence inheriting an SVO word order.