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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[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.

Borrowed from Italian omertà.

  • IPA(key): [ˈomɛrta]
  • Hyphenation: omer‧ta

omerta f

  1. omertà
  • “omerta”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “omerta”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

From Italian omertà, from a Southern dialectal rhotacist variant of umiltà (“humility”), from Latin humilitās, from humilis (“humble”), from humus (“ground, soil”).

omerta f (plural omertas, diminutive omertaatje n)

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

omerta f (plural omertas)

  1. (crime) omertà
  2. any code of silence

Unadapted borrowing from Italian omertà, from a Southern dialectal rhotacist variant of umiltà (“humility”), from Latin humilitās, from humilis (“humble”), from humus (“ground, soil”).

omerta

  1. omertà