Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Something to be done, especially an item on a program or list.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A thing to be done: usually in the plural, things to be done; duties. Specifically — Items of business to be brought before a committee, council, board, etc., as things to be done. Matters of practice, as opposed to credenda, or matters of belief.
- n. Especially— Matters of ecclesiastical practice; ritual or liturgy. As a collective singular, a memorandum-book.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete A task which ought to be done.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Something to be done; in the pl., a memorandum book; also, a list of items to be considered. See agenda.
- n. A church service; a ritual or liturgy. [In this sense, usually
Agenda .]
WordNet 3.0
- n. a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting)
Etymologies
- From Latin agendum, substantive use of the neuter singular of agendus ("which ought to be done"), future passive participle (gerundive) of agō ("I do, act, make"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin, neuter gerundive of agere, to do; see ag- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I absolutely agree that the liberal agendum is more difficult to sell, just as Reason is more difficult to sell than is fear and panic. agreed.”
“Similarly, agenda has taken on a singular life of its own (distinct from the near-obsolete agendum) and has given rise to the standard plural agendas.”
“However, the Dems should have understood that the GOP has no interest in actual governing and should have forced an agendum.”
“My only agendum is to make a few modest suggestions, and have a give-and-take with you that informs my future suggestions.”
“The agendum of the seemingly incompetent is often achieved.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“I hope that Clinton's first agendum is to (re) hire those State Dept. professionals who abandoned the service rather than facing the dilemma of carrying out Bush's betrayal of long established principled policy.”
“Severus in despatch; Adeste si quid mihi restat agendum.”
“Igne et fuste potius agendum cum haereticis quam cum disputationibus; os alia loquens, &c.”
“Oh, and on the subject of lost Latin plurals: I have occasionally seen “agenda” treated as plural, and once or twice to my delight seen “an agendum” referred to.”
“Note 57: Chronica Regia Coloniensis continuatio IIa, p. 191: "ipsos vero adhuc etate puerile nec robur nec vires ad aliquid agendum habere et ideo stulte et absque discretione hoc factum attemptatum ab omnibus iudicaretur." back”
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
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quaxanta The singular of agenda -- and better because it means that there's less that you have to do! Dec 8, 2006