agenda

See also: Agenda and agendá

English

Etymology

From Latin agenda (things that ought to be done), future passive participle (gerundive) of agō (I do, act, make).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /əˈdʒɛn.də/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛndə

Noun

agenda (plural agendas)

  1. A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
    • July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises
      Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
  2. A list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting).
  3. A notebook used to organize and maintain such plans or lists, an agenda book, an agenda planner.
    • 2005, Linda Wilmshurst, Alan W. Brue, A Parent's Guide To Special Education: Insider Advice On How To Navigate The System And Help Your Child Succeed, →ISBN, page 145
      A homework agenda, sometimes called a student planner, is a notebook often used to help your child keep track of daily homework assignments.
    • 2011, Spencer Marc Aronfeld, Make It Your Own Law Firm: The Ultimate Law Student's Guide to Owning, Managing, and Marketing Your Own Successful Law Firm, AuthorHouse, page 12
      It may be better to simply buy an agenda at the drug store for five dollars, but you need to keep this stuff accurate.
    • 2011, David Campos, Rocio Delgado, Mary Esther Huerta, Reaching Out to Latino Families of English Language Learners, →ISBN, page 160
      The children will use an agenda book that the school provides to organize their homework information. Before leaving for home, the children will neatly write their assignments and related directions in their agendas.
  4. A hidden agenda.
  5. (obsolete) A ritual.

Usage notes

The word agenda is the Latin plural of agendum, but in English the word agenda is usually taken as a singular, and item on the agenda used for individual things in the list.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

agenda

  1. (now rare) plural of agendum

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin agenda, substantive use of the neuter plural of agendus (which ought to be done), future passive participle (gerundive) of agō (I do, act, make).

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /əˈʒen.də/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /aˈd͡ʒen.da/

Noun

agenda f (plural agendes)

  1. agenda; calendar (a list of planned events, organized by time)
  2. planner (a notebook in which one keeps notations of appointments and contacts)
  3. agenda (a list of planned items for discussion at a meeting)
  4. (economics) A list of planned projects that are to be done as funds become available.

Hyponyms

  • (a list of planned events, organized by time): calendari (a list of planned events for a given year)

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch agendaboec, itself from Latin agenda (things which ought to be done) (from the verb agō (act, do)) + boec (book) (modern Dutch boek).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑˈɣɛn.daː/, /aːˈɣɛn.daː/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: agen‧da
  • Rhymes: -ɛndaː

Noun

agenda m (plural agenda's, diminutive agendaatje n)

  1. A calendar (book), an organizer, a booklet or other device where one notes down one’s schedule, appointments etc.
  2. An agenda (list of matters at a meeting)

Derived terms

See also

Anagrams


Finnish

Noun

agenda

  1. An agenda

Declension

Inflection of agenda (Kotus type 13/katiska, no gradation)
nominative agenda agendat
genitive agendan agendoiden
agendoitten
agendojen
partitive agendaa agendoita
agendoja
illative agendaan agendoihin
singular plural
nominative agenda agendat
accusative nom. agenda agendat
gen. agendan
genitive agendan agendoiden
agendoitten
agendojen
agendainrare
partitive agendaa agendoita
agendoja
inessive agendassa agendoissa
elative agendasta agendoista
illative agendaan agendoihin
adessive agendalla agendoilla
ablative agendalta agendoilta
allative agendalle agendoille
essive agendana agendoina
translative agendaksi agendoiksi
instructive agendoin
abessive agendatta agendoitta
comitative agendoineen

French

Etymology

From Latin agenda, substantive use of the neuter plural of agendus (which ought to be done), future passive participle (gerundive) of agō (I do, act, make).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.ʒɛ̃.da/
  • (file)
  • (file)

Noun

agenda m (plural agendas)

  1. organiser, appointment book, engagement book.

Further reading


Italian

Noun

agenda f (plural agende)

  1. diary
  2. planner (notebook)
    Synonym: taccuino
  3. (figuratively) agenda

Latin

Participle

agenda

  1. nominative feminine singular of agendus
  2. nominative neuter plural of agendus
  3. accusative neuter plural of agendus
  4. vocative feminine singular of agendus
  5. vocative neuter plural of agendus

agendā

  1. ablative feminine singular of agendus

References


Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin agenda (what ought to be done).

Noun

agenda m (definite singular agendaen, indefinite plural agendaer, definite plural agendaene)

  1. an agenda

References


Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin agenda (what ought to be done).

Noun

agenda m (definite singular agendaen, indefinite plural agendaer or agendaar, definite plural agendaene or agendaane)

  1. an agenda

References


Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin agenda.

Pronunciation

Noun

agenda f (plural agendas)

  1. schedule (time-based plan of events)
  2. booklet where an schedule is kept.
  3. planner; a personal phone book; an organizer

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin agenda, substantive use of the neuter plural of agendus (which ought to be done), future passive participle (gerundive) of agō (I do, act, make).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈxenda/, [aˈxẽn̪d̪a]

Noun

agenda f (plural agendas)

  1. agenda, planner (notebook)
  2. agenda (list of matters to be taken up)

Derived terms

Further reading


Swedish

Etymology

From Latin agenda (what ought to be done).

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

agenda c

  1. an agenda

Usage notes

  • The agenda for a meeting is normally called dagordning. The word agenda is more often used in the abstract sense of somebody's "political agenda".

Declension

Declension of agenda 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative agenda agendan agendor agendorna
Genitive agendas agendans agendors agendornas
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