Given name
Amadeu
“love”·“god”
Amadeu is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in Portuguese, Catalan, and Galician.
Original LatinAmadeus
Meaning & origin
What it means
Amadeu is built from elements meaning “love” and “god”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Latin Amadeus, built from Latin amō (“love”) + deus (“god”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Amadeu’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Amadeu has a related form in Amadeo. In Galician usage, Amadeu has a conventional equivalent in the English form Amadeus. In Catalan usage, Amadeu was borrowed from the Latin form Amadeus.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Amadeu has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Amadeu comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 18
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Amadeu
- Amadeu Vives i RoigSpanish–Catalan composer, writer and impresario (1871-1932)
- Amadeu José FerreiraPortuguese writer, lawyer and professor (1950-2015)
- Amadeu Antoniovictim of right-wing violence (1962-1990)
- Amadeu AltafajSpanish journalist and diplomatborn 1968
- Amédée PagèsFrench writer1865–1952
- Amadeu Aragay i DaviSpanish politician (1886-1965)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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