This isn't really relevant to anything, but google can't answer the question that I will at some point ask, and you folks have a way with words. I was just listening to Type O Negative's Pyretta Blaze. If you know it, good on you. If you want to know it, click here, but it's not everybody's cup of tea, nor relevant to my question. Anyway, I know what the song is about: a sexual fantasy about a pyromaniac, basically. Fairly standard Type O fare. What I'm curious about is if "Pyretta" means anything. It sounds like a handgun. Sounds like a girl's name. (According to one name-site, there's been one child between 1980 and 2019 born with that name. I'm guessing that was 1999-ish.) Sounds fiery, obviously. If anything, it sounds like an awesome superhero. Anyway, is there a real world meaning to the word that anybody knows of?
This is proving a negative (ha) but I'm sure it's just pyr = fire + a feminine ending. It was a very respectable coinage on Mr. Steele's part, and so perhaps he wanted to puncture it with the underwhelming hendiadys "Blaze" World Coming Down was released 1999, but Google Trends only goes back to 2004. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Pyretta&hl=en-GB It isn't on Google NGRAM, so probably it has never appeared in a book https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=beretta%2C+pyretta&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&case_insensitive=on&corpus=en-GB-2019&smoothing=3 And it doesn't seem to be trademarked. All in all a good spot!
That's what I would guess, too. A diminutive, female "pyro." I haven't thought of Type-O in probably 25 years. They were okay. The goth chicks digged them, so if you were digging the goth chicks, it helped to have some handy.
That's what I figured, yeah. Just felt a double check would be prudent, considering the actual-word-like quality. My Type O collection sadly never really had that effect, but I guess that's mainly because in those days you had to bring the girls to your music, instead of just having it everywhere. Which was the ever prevalent paradox of a pre-2000 teenage metalhead: All the music to rock the panties off a girl, and absolutely none of the qualities to get them to listen.
It reminds me of a girl I went to school with named Perette. Not sure on the spelling. It's the only time I've heard that name. Wondering if anybody else has? And a playful breakdown— Pyretta means something like Pyro-Girl-ia as opposed to Pyro-Man-ia. Also sounds like Pirouette, which is a ballet move. Makes me think of a dancing Bond girl kind of thing, with fire. Also sounds a bit like Beretta. Maybe she has a gun too?
Only instance I've heard of, or read, in this case, is in the NCIS credits. Pauley Perette. She looks like she could be into Type O Negative, and she looks like Peter Steele would have liked her. Taking Type O's whole deal into account, I'd say she has an axe at most. Didn't Bond actually use a Beretta, before he went with the Walther?
The Perette I knew looked like she might have originated from the Middle East. Anti-Goth. I'm not sure. I just remember the cop show. Robert Blake I think, and he had a bird and stood on rooftops a lot.
I don't remember the bird, but I suppose it comes with the rooftops, so that checks out. And I might have been thinking of that show, yes.
Hello, My name is Pyretta and I can give you some info! It's a Dutch name from the province Frysia. The meaning comes from Pietra/Petrus and means rock/stone. How much I love Type o and how cool it may sound, Pyretta has nothing to do with fire.
You don't know about the name Perette, do you? I wonder if they're related? There was a girl in my school named Perette, though honestly I don't know how it was spelled, possibly it was Pyrette? No, it was probably Perette. I think she was of Middle Eastern origin though.
That's, like, an hour and a half's drive from here. Are you Frysian? Either way, it sounds fire-y though. Always sounded a little French or maybe Italian to me. I'm reminded of Pauley Perette, who played Abby (?) in NCIS. Fun fact: She actually studied criminal justice or forensic science.
