Also means
full stop (punctuation)
Usage Note
Stop is used in Italian as an invariable masculine noun — uno stop, gli stop. As a road sign it means a stop sign (rispettare gli stop = 'to obey stop signs'). In informal speech stop! is used as an interjection to mean 'that's enough' or 'end of story' (e stop = 'and that's that'). In older telegraphic Italian, stop was used as a full stop marker between sentences.
Examples
"Devi fermarti a ogni stop."
Natural Translation
You must stop at every stop sign.
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