ecologue

English

Etymology

From misinterpreting or reanalysing eclogue as eco- (“to do with nature”) +‎ -logue (“speech”) – an eclogue typically takes the form of a monologue or dialogue about nature and country life.

Noun

ecologue (plural ecologues)

Misspelling of eclogue (“pastoral poem”)
- 1926, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Program:
  This composition, designated by Debussy as a "prelude symphonique," is based on an ecologue of Stephen Mallarme, and in keeping with the very nature of the composition Louis Laloy has given the following fanciful analysis: […]
- 1987, Chronica:
  […] the Ecologue as modelled upon Vergilian sources, namely the first Ecologue and the account of the plague in Book 3 of the Georgics.
- 2018, Gerald Dawe, The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 168:
  His early 'Ecologue for Christmas' (1933) , for instance, is indeed an ecologue (a classical form, as one might expect from a writer who taught classical literature for many years)