programades

Programades is a Catalan term meaning scheduled or planned items, used as the feminine plural form of the participle programat. It is typically employed as an adjective to describe events, tasks, or programs that have been arranged in advance. In common usage, programades denotes things set for a particular time or sequence.

Etymology and grammar: The word originates from the verb programar, to schedule or plan. The suffix -ades marks feminine plural agreement, so programades corresponds to masculine plural "programats" and to the general idea of predetermined items within a plan. The term is widely understood in Catalan-speaking regions, including Catalonia, Valencia, and the Balearic Islands, where it appears in everyday and formal contexts.

Contexts: In municipal administration, programades refers to scheduled activities such as cultural events, public meetings, and workshops. In broadcasting, emissions programades are preplanned segments or time slots. In information technology and project management, tasques programades or processes programats denote scheduled tasks that run at predefined times or intervals, often via cron-like schedulers or calendar-based triggers.

Examples: Examples of programades include a week’s cultural programades featuring concerts and fairs, a city council’s series of public consultations, or a software deployment pipeline that executes at scheduled times. In each case, the common element is advance specification and timing.

See also: scheduling, programming, event planning.