English
Noun
omerta (countable and uncountable, plural omertas)
- Alternative spelling of omertà
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2009 February 7, Mark Lawson, “We're all in public now”, in The Guardian:- But although her agent has invoked that tradition of post-show omerta in her defence, the truth is that few would trust these days to what it is now possibly risky to call Chinese walls.
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Etymology
From Italian omertà, from a Italian dialectal rhotacist variant of umiltà (“humility”).
Noun
omerta f (plural omertas, diminutive omertaatje n)
- (crime) omertà
- code of silence