georgic
pronunciation
How to pronounce georgic in British English:
UK ['dʒɔːdʒɪk]
How to pronounce georgic in American English:
US [ 'dʒɔrdʒɪk]
Word Origin
- georgic (n.)
- "poem of rural or agricultural life," 1510s, Georgics, title of Virgil's poems on rural life, from Latin georgica, from georgicus (adj.), from Greek georgikos "of a husbandman, agricultural," from ge "earth" (see Gaia) + ergon "work" (see organ). As an adjective meaning "related to agriculture" from 1711.