Origin

+ -ponics, in geoponics "agriculture," borrowed from New Latin geōponica (with for -ica), borrowed from Middle Greek Geōponiká (title of a 10th-century Byzantine compilation of agricultural knowledge), from neuter plural of Greek geōponikós "pertaining to agriculture," from geōpónos (earlier gāpónos) "person tilling the land, farmer" (from geō- + -ponos, o-grade agentive derivative from the base of pénomai, pénesthai "to busy oneself, work, toil," of uncertain origin) + ikos.