Agendum
/əˈdʒɛn.dəm/noun
Something that needs to be done; an item on a list of tasks.
Did you know?Agendum is the singular Latin gerundive of agere, and its meaning carries the force of obligation: in older scholarly English, it literally named “a thing to be done.”
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*ag-
“to drive, lead, move”
Latin
Latin
agere
“to drive, set in motion, do, act”
Latin
Latin
agendum
“that which must be done”
17th Century
English
agendum
“a thing to be done; a business item”
Modern English
English
agendum
“an item on a list of tasks or matters to be considered”