The story
- Italian · borrowed fromPinocchio
- English todayPinocchio
Borrowed from Italian Pinocchio, possibly from the rare Tuscan form pinocchio (“pine nut”) or constructed from pino (“pine tree, pine wood”), also similar to Pino, diminutive of Giuseppe (“Joseph”), as is Geppetto (the maker of Pinocchio).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.