
ETYMOLOGY
from bucol-ic + -ism
EXAMPLE
“…The attempt produces a farrago which, in point of Greek, is disgraceful to the reputation of the University; for what can be more lamentably absurd than to see the lowest” bucolisms” of Theocritus thrust in as the necessities of a Sapphic ode require? The Greek Professor might very profitably publish a canon on this subject. …”
From: Introductions to the study of the Greek classic poets
By Henry Nelson Coleridge, 1830