Agendas
/əˈdʒɛndəz/noun
Lists of matters to be discussed, decided, or acted upon.
Did you know?In Latin, agenda was grammatically plural; English later treated agenda as a singular noun and created agendas as its modern plural.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*ag-
“To drive, lead, or set in motion”
Classical Latin
Latin
agere
“To drive, do, conduct, or act”
Late Latin
Latin
agenda
“Things that ought to be done; the neuter plural of the gerundive of agere”
17th Century
English
agenda
“A list or record of matters to be acted upon, especially in ecclesiastical or scholarly contexts”
19th Century
English
agenda
“A list of items for discussion or action”
Modern English
English
agendas
“Multiple lists of matters to be discussed, decided, or acted upon”
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