omerta

omerta (countable and uncountable, plural omertas)

1. Alternative spelling of omertà
   • 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.

• Moreta, Teramo, amoret, morate

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)

1. (crime) omertà, (extensively) wall of silence, code of silence