In Japanese it means mushroom, not sure what else (the nintendo character toad is called kinopio-kun in japan). But really I just randomly stumbled on it years ago and it sounded unique and interesting to me
In Japanese mushroom is kinoko. kinopio is the name for Toad, probably comes from kinoko but doesn't mean anything by itself :)
oh wow, I guess I got some bad info – thanks for clearing that up for me!
Bad information about mushrooms has been tripping us up for millenia.
And we've been tripping over good information for hundreds of years.
The Nintendo character Kinopio (Toad) is a play on words:
kinoko (mushroom) +
Pinocchio
I was just about to ask if it is pronounced like Pinocchio or kino-pio, guess that clears it up, thanks.
Ahh, ok. It means "publish/share" in Greek.
That's a really awesome coincidence, maybe I'll tell people that that's what it means from now on :D
The Greek word is "κοινοποιώ". It derives from "koino", which means public, and "poio" which means acting/doing something. So it literally means making something public. Sounds like a hell of a match for what your product does.
Also, those linked objects grow fungus-like. Actually, probably more lichen-like.
κινόπιο means "cinnamon" according to Google translate.