omerta
See also: omertà
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omerta (countable and uncountable, plural omertas)
- Alternative spelling of omertà
- 2009 February 7, Mark Lawson, “We're all in public now”, in The Guardian[1]:
- 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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omerta f
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From Italian omertà, from a Southern dialectal rhotacist variant of umiltà (“humility”), from Latin humilitās, from humilis (“humble”), from humus (“ground, soil”).
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omerta f (plural omertas, diminutive omertaatje n)
- (crime) omertà, (extensively) wall of silence, code of silence
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omerta f (plural omertas)
- (crime) omertà
- any code of silence