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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 gē "earth" (see Gaia) + -ourgia "a working," from ergon "work" (from PIE root *werg- "to do"). As an adjective meaning "related to agriculture" from 1711.
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