Dance terms in Florio - steps

Steps

Continenza

Key image - self-contained, chaste, restrained.

• Continente, continent, chaste. Also the continent or maine firm land.
• Continenza, continenciem chastitie.

Corvetta

Key image - prancing horse

• Corvetta, a corvet, a sault, a prancing or continuall dancing of a horse.
• Corvettare, to corvet or prance or sault as horses of service.

(Compare classical dressage courbette: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airs_above_the_ground. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdWnCtlOyFc)

Dainetto

Key image? - a little deer. 

• Daina, a Doe. Also a Doe-faune.
• Daino, a Faune, a Pricket, a sore, a sorrell, a Bucke, a Fallow-deare.

Fuga

Key image - running away, fleeing.

• Fuga, a flight, a running away, an escape. Also a route or discomfiture.

(Tracacciata / tracancciata - adjectctive often used by Lupi to modify fuga and other steps - not present in Florio.)

Reverenza

Key image - showing that you honour another. 

• Riverendo, reverend, venerable, worshipfull, worthy of reverence.
• Riverente, reverent, he that doth reverence or honours to another.
• Riverentia, reverence, worship, honour. Also a reverend feare. Also a courtesie or reverence made to any bodie. 
• Riverentiare, to reverence, to worship, to honour, to make curtizie unto.

Ricacciata

Key image - chasing and re-chasing

• Riccacciàre, to rechase. Also to enchase.

Sempio

• Sciempio, single, not double.

Trabucchetto

Key image - little staggering, stumbling falls

• Traboccare, to fall downe over and over, or groveling on the ground, or headlong. Also to reele, to stagger, or stumble. Also to powne foorth with furie.
• Trabocco, a downe-fall, a groveling on the ground. Also a reeling, a staggering, or a stumbling. Also the pinne upon which the ballances yeeld or goe. Also an engine of war called a Ram, looke Ariete. Also a trap or pitfall to catch any thing with.
• Trabochetti, pitfalls, traps, or gins.

 Zoppetto

Key image - limping, halting movement

• Zoppare, as Zoppegare
• Zoppegare, to halt, to limpe or goe as a cripple
• Zoppicare, to halt, to limpe, to cripple.
• Zoppo, lame, lalting, limping, cripple.

Dance types

Calata

Key images? - abating, descending, maybe stooping. Maybe laughter. 

• Calare, to abate, to diminish, to welke, to stoope, to descend, to fall as the tide, the wane as the moone, to abate in price, to descend a paire of staires, to stoope from aloft, to come downe from on high, to vaile bonet, to stoope to a lure, to strike sailes, to diminish in estimation.
• Calata, an abating, a descending, a waning, etc. Also a falling note. Also a trap dore. Also a fit of mirth.

Probably not relevant (sense is 'fallen beauty'), and definitely not pleasant. Included so I don't have to check them up again. 

• Calata belletta, as Cacasotto
• Cacasotto, Cacasisotto,  a pisse-kitching a drigledragle, a durty-flurt, a shitten slut.

Sciolta

Key images - quick and nimble; loose, free; finished

• Scioltezza, looseness, liberty, freedome. Also nimblenesse, quicke agility.
• Sciolto, loose, free, at liberty, untide, untangled, unsnared. Also quit, absolved or discharged. Also quick, nimble and full of agility. Also a kind of verse among the Italians, a loose verse a blancke verse.

Adjectives applied to steps

Strisciata

Key images - sliding, gliding, as on ice. Making a noise with the feet.

• Strisciare, to streake or draw out in lines or streakes. Also to sleeke or make smooth. Also to slide or glide upon ice. Also to drag, to traile, to creepe or craule along the ground. Also to currie, to rub, or smooth a horse. Also to make a trampling noise with ones feet as Canarie dancers use. Also to lay a counterfeit colour on any thing or paint as women do their faces. 
• Strisciatura, a streaking out in lines, a sleeking or making smooth. Also a sliding or gliding upon ice. Also a dragging or trailing along the ground. Also a currying or dressing of a Horse. Also a trampling noise with ones feet. Also a painting laid on a womans face.

Schisati (used heavily in Lupi)

As above, or closer to Schizzare?

• Schizzare, to squirt as out of siringe. Also to spin, to streame, to sprinkle, to spurt or gush forth violently as blood out of a veine, to spout as out of a Conduit-cock. Also to crush, to burst, or squease out as matter out of a sore, to siringe, or inject with a siringe. Also to pump water. Also to dash or dable with durt or mire. Also to blur with inke. Also to mute as a Hawke doeth. Also to skimmer as a dog. Also to purle or buble as water doeth. Also to hop, to friske, to skip, or spurt. Also to crush or kernell small as touch-pouder. Also to draw the first rough draught, or engrosement of any worke or writing.
• Schizzata, a squirting, a spurting, a gushing, a spinning foorth. Also a crushing or squeasing, a dashing with durt, a pumping of water, a blurring, a mute of a Hawke, a skummering of a dogge. Looke Schizzare.
• Schizzo, a squirt, or squirting of any thing, a spurt or spurting, a purling, a bubling, a gushing forth, a blurt or blot of inke, a spot or dashing with durt or mire, a mute of a Hawke, a skummering of a dog, a water-pump, a squealing or crushing of any sore. Also the first rough draught of any worke or writing. Also a friske, a hop, a skip or bounding leape. Looke Schizzare.

Other motions, useful words

Banda - any side or shore...