Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Bucolic

Bucolic ({not transcribed}) , adjective

[Latin bucolicus, Greek {not transcribed}, from {not transcribed} cowherd, herdsman; {not transcribed} ox + (perh.) {not transcribed} race horse; compare Sanskrit kal to drive: compare French bucolique. See Cow the animal.]

Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.

Bucolic , noun

[Latin Bucolicôn poema.]

A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil. — Dryden