Diary
A diary is a tool making it possible to associate actions with moments, and to thus organize its Temps. It gathers the whole of the days of the year, organized with a cutting of a page per day or week, two pages per week, etc
It is used in order to be able to give to its user the possibility of planning, to note its timetable, its go…
In general, it also comprises pages or sections reserved for other practical informations: address book, geographical maps, scratch pad, Todo list etc
It can have many forms, but the use wants that it is compact and holds in a pocket or a bag.
There exist also electronic diaries, which have the same role as the diaries paper (see: PDA).
The term diary comes from the Latin , more precisely it acts of the variation to the Nominatif Pluriel of agendus, has, um , i.e. the Verbal adjective of ago, agere (“to make”). Literally diary thus means “what must be made” or, better: “things to be made”.
In English, the term diary means “day order”. The proximity with the significance in French makes that one rather often observes a shift in meaning, in particular in the journalistic field having to translate quickly of English: “the diary of the Council of Ministers…” or “the diary of the meeting… ”.
Internal bonds
- Almanac
- Éphéméride
- Planning ( planning )