The noun γεωργός geōrgós "husbandman, farmer" and the verb γεωργέω geōrgéō "to be a farmer; to plow, till, cultivate" are attested in Attic Greek, in the works of Plato and Aristophanes [REF].
By the 7th century, at least 25 bishops in Anatolia and the Aegean had taken the saint's name.