Etymology

agenda

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Today it means: A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to. Full definition →

Latin agenda ← Proto-Italic *agō ← Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂eǵ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éǵeti
  3. Proto-Italic*agō
  4. Latinagō
  5. Latinagenda
  6. English todayagenda

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.