agenda

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

• IPA^(key): /əˈd͡ʒɛn.də/

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• Rhymes: -ɛndə

agenda (plural agendas or (rare, proscribed) agendae)

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. An ulterior motive.
5. (obsolete) A ritual.

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.

• (temporally organized plan): docket, worklist, schedule

• → Malay: agenda
• → Swahili: ajenda

agenda

1. (now rare) plural of agendum

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”).

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

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.

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

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).

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈɣɛn.daː/, /aːˈɣɛn.daː/

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• Hyphenation: agen‧da
• Rhymes: -ɛndaː

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

1. A calendar (book), a diary, a booklet or other device where one notes down one’s schedule, appointments etc.

   Synonym: dagwijzer

2. An agenda (list of matters at a meeting)

• agendaseks
• schoolagenda

• Afrikaans: agenda
• → Indonesian: agenda
• → Papiamentu: agènda

• kalender

• gaande, gedaan

From Latin agenda.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑɡendɑ/, [ˈɑɡe̞ndɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑɡendɑ
• Syllabification^(key): a‧gen‧da

agenda

1. An agenda

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”).

• IPA^(key): /a.ʒɛ̃.da/, (regional) /a.ʒɑ̃.da/

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agenda m (plural agendas)

1. organiser, appointment book, engagement book

• agenda de ministre

• → Turkish: ajanda

• “agenda”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Dutch agenda, from Latin agenda (“things that ought to be done”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈaɡɛn.da]
• Rhymes: -da, -a
• Hyphenation: agèn‧da

agènda (plural agenda-agenda, first-person possessive agendaku, second-person possessive agendamu, third-person possessive agendanya)

1. agenda,
   1. A notebook used to organize and maintain such plans or lists, an agenda book, an agenda planner.
   2. A list of matters to be taken up.

      Synonym: acara

• “agenda” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /aˈd͡ʒɛn.da/
• Rhymes: -ɛnda
• Hyphenation: a‧gèn‧da

agenda f (plural agende, diminutive agendìna)

1. diary
2. planner (notebook)

   Synonym: taccuino

3. (figurative) agenda

agenda

1. inflection of agendus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

agendā

1. ablative feminine singular of agendus

• agenda in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

From English agenda.

• (Standard) IPA^(key): [a.ɡen.da]
• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): [ä.d͡ʒen.dä]

agenda (Jawi spelling اݢيندا‎, plural agenda-agenda, informal 1st possessive agendaku, 2nd possessive agendamu, 3rd possessive agendanya)

1. agenda.

• “agenda” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From Latin agenda (“what ought to be done”).

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

1. an agenda

• “agenda” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin agenda (“what ought to be done”).

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

1. an agenda

• “agenda” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• ajenda (Middle Polish)[1][2]

Learned borrowing from Latin agenda/agendum/agendus. First attested in 1560.[1][3]

• IPA^(key): /aˈɡɛn.da/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnda
• Syllabification: a‧gen‧da

agenda f (diminutive agendka)

1. branch, department (of a company or organization)

   Synonyms: filia, oddział

2. agenda, schedule (lists of tasks one must do) [from mid-18th c.][2]

   Synonym: terminarz

3. agenda, schedule (lists tasks of for a meeting)
4. agenda (small notebook)
5. (obsolete, Christianity) Christian prayer book [16th–19th c.]

   agenda liturgiczna ― a liturgical prayer book

• Pęzik, Piotr; Przepiórkowski, A.; Bańko, M.; Górski, R.; Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B (2012) Wyszukiwarka PELCRA dla danych NKJP. Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego [National Polish Language Corpus, PELCRA search engine]‎, Wydawnictwo PWN

• agenda in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• agenda in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807-1814), “agienda”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “agenda”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861

• Rhymes: -ẽdɐ
• Hyphenation: a‧gen‧da

Borrowed from Latin agenda.

agenda f (plural agendas)

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

• agendar, agendamento

agenda

1. inflection of agendar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

• IPA^(key): /aˈxenda/ [aˈxẽn̪.d̪a]
• Rhymes: -enda
• Syllabification: a‧gen‧da

agenda f (plural agendas)

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

agenda

1. inflection of agendar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “agenda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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agenda (n class, plural agenda)

1. Alternative form of ajenda

From Latin agenda (“what ought to be done”).

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agenda c

1. an agenda

• 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".

• agande