Modelled on odium as a regularised form of highly irregular ōdī of Classical Latin, first attested as odīvit in Cicero and attributed to Marc Antony. This early use may have been during the first stage of the verb's development, via hypercorrection of the then-current -īvī- > -ī- contraction, which was later extended to other tenses on the model of verbs like audiō.