Amadeus (name)
Amadeus is a theophoric given name derived from the Latin words ama – the imperative of the word amare (to love) – and deus (god). As a linguistic compound in the form of a phereoikos. The name can be either taken to mean 'love of God', in other words, that the person is loved by God[1] or 'one who loves God'.[2]
The best-known bearer of the name is the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Equivalent and similar names[]
The German-language calque is "Gottlieb".
Borrowings include the female form, "Amadea", the French "Amédée" (male), the Spanish "Amadeo", the Italian "Amedeo", and "Amadis", the Polish "Amadeusz", the Slovenian "Amadej".
Similar Slavic names include "Bogomil" and "Bohumil" meaning "Dear to God", as well as "Bogolyub", meaning "he who loves God". The Arabic "Habibullah" means "Beloved of God". The Greek name "Theophilos" means "friend of God".
People[]
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), composer
- Amadeus de Bie (1844–1920), Belgian Abbot-General of the Cistercian order
- Amadeo I of Spain (1845–1890), Italian prince, King of Spain 1870 to 1873
- Amadeus I, Count of Savoy
- Amadeus II, Count of Savoy
- Amadeus III, Count of Savoy
- Amadeus IV, Count of Savoy
- Amadeus V, Count of Savoy
- Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy
- Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy
- Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy, Antipope Felix V
- Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy
- Amadeus, Count of Neuchâtel (died 1285), son of Count Rudolph IV and Sybille of Montbéliard
- Amadeus, Prince of Achaea (1363–1402), son of James of Piedmont and Marguerite de Beaujeu
- Ernst Theodore Amadeus Hoffmann, better known as E.T.A. Hoffmann, writer
- Karl Amadeus Hartmann
- Rambo Amadeus, pseudonym for the Serbian-Montenegrin rock singer-songwriter Antonije Pušić
- Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy
- Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia
- Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia
- Amadeus (presenter) (born 1962), Italian television and radio presenter
Fictional characters[]
- Amadeus Arkham, founder of Arkham Asylum in Batman series
- Amadeus Cho, Marvel character
- Baron Mordo (Karl Amadeus Mordo), Marvel character
- Amadeus, fictional artificial intelligence from the 2018 anime Steins;Gate 0
See also[]
- Eleutherodactylus amadeus, species of frog
- All pages with titles beginning with Amadeus
- All pages with titles beginning with Amadeo
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References[]
- ^ Campbell, Mike. "Meaning, origin and history of the name Amadeus". Behind the Name. Retrieved 2021-07-16.
- ^ "Amadeus". SheKnows. 2018-08-22. Retrieved 2021-07-16.
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