Amadeo

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  • Italian
Italian variant of AMADEUS. This was the name of a 19th-century king of Spain (born in Italy).

AMADEUS   male   Late Roman
Means "love of God", derived from Latin amare "to love" and Deus "God". A famous bearer was the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), who was actually born Wolfgang Theophilus Mozart but preferred the Latin translation of his Greek middle name. This name was also assumed as a middle name by the German novelist E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822), who took it in honour of Mozart.
EQUIVALENTS
FRENCH: Amédée
ITALIAN: Amedeo
LATE ROMAN: Amadeus
SLOVENE: Amadej
FEMININE FORMS
ITALIAN: Amedea