Amadeus (name) name "Theophilos" means "friend of God". Amadeus (name) Amadeus is a theophoric given name derived from the Latin words ' – the imperative of the word ' (to love) – and "" (god). As a linguistic compound in the form of a phereoikos, it means "Love god!". The best-known bearer of the name is the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The German-language calque is "'. Borrowings include the female form, "Amadea", the French "Amédée" (male), the Spanish "Amadeo", the Italian "Amedeo", and "Amadis", the Polish "Amadeusz" . Similar Slavic names include "Bogomil" and "Bohumil" meaning "Dear to God". The Arabic "Habibullah"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his family had moved from central Vienna to the suburb of Alsergrund. Although it has been suggested that Mozart's aim was to reduce his rental expenses, research shows that by moving to the suburb, Mozart had not in fact reduced his expenses (as claimed in his letter to Puchberg), but merely increased the housing space at his disposal. Mozart began to borrow money, most often from his friend and fellow Mason Michael Puchberg; "a pitiful sequence of letters pleading for loans" survives. Maynard Solomon and others have suggested that Mozart was suffering from depression, and it seems that his