Amadeo is a Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 and Portuguese

Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

 name meaning, derived from the Latin name Amadeus

Amadeus

Amadeus is a play by Peter Shaffer.It is based on the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, highly fictionalized.Amadeus was first performed in 1979...

, "lover of God", "loves God", or more correctly "for the love of God" (the translation given in the dramatization of Mozart's life, Amadeus, "beloved of God" being improbable). In Galician

Galician language

Galician is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it is co-official with Castilian Spanish, as well as in border zones of the neighbouring territories of Asturias and Castile and León.Modern Galician and...

, the name derived to Amadeu. It may refer to:

• Amadeo, Cavite
  Amadeo, Cavite
  The Municipality of Amadeo is a fourth class municipality in the province of Cavite, Philippines. It is nicknamed the "Coffee Capital of the Philippines". According to the 2008 census, it has a population of 43,722 people.Amadeo is best known for their Pahimis Festival, which showcases the town's...
  
  , a municipality in the province of Cavite, Philippines
• Amadeo Giannini
  Amadeo Giannini
  Amadeo Pietro Giannini, also known as Amadeo Peter Giannini or A.P. Giannini , born in San Jose, California, was the American founder of Bank of America.-Biography:...
  
  , one of the founders of the Bank of America
• Amadeo I of Spain
  Amadeo I of Spain
  Amadeo I was the only King of Spain from the House of Savoy...
  
   (1845–1890)
• Amadeo vampire better known as Armand from Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles
• Giovanni Antonio Amadeo
  Giovanni Antonio Amadeo
  thumb|260px|The Colleoni Chapel in Bergamo.Giovanni Antonio Amadeo was an Italian early Renaissance sculptor, architect, and engineer....
  
  , Italian sculptor

for people with the first name Amadeo for people with the first name Amadeus for people with the first name Amedeo