English
Etymology
From ME. term|me thinketh||seems to me < OE. term|me thyncth. In Early Modern English, used at least 150 times by w:William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare; in Middle English by w:Geoffrey Chaucer|Geoffrey Chaucer, term|me thinketh; and in Old English by w:Alfred the Great|Alfred the Great, term|me thincth.
Verb
methinks
- archaic It seems to me.
Quotations
rfdate|and format all these quotations William Shakespeare:
:methinks the truth should live from age to age,
:�King Richard III: III, i
rfdate Geoffrey Chaucer:
:Me thinketh accordant to reason
:To telle you al the condicion
rfdate Alfred the Great:
:Forthy me thincth betre,
:gif iow swæ thincth,
:thæt we eac sumæ bec
rfdate Dr. Tobias Fünke:
:Methinks a cupid I shall play.
Translations
trans-top|it seems to me
Bulgarian: ����вам|����ва ми �е
Dutch: t|nl|me dunkt
Estonian: mulle tundub
French: il me semble, il m'apparaît|il m�apparaît (the latter is unusual, so conveys better the archaic meaning)
German: mich dünkt, also archaic mir deucht for meseems
trans-mid
Icelandic: mér virðist, mér sýnist
Russian: �#Russian|мне каже��� (mne kážetsja)
Spanish: t+|es|parecer|alt=me parece
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See also
meseems italbrac|obsolete
te:methinks
vi:methinks
zh:methinks
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