Silas (name) Silas (name) Silas is a common given name and a lesser-known surname. It is a cognate of Silvanus. Silas as a name today comes from the early Christian disciple Silas. He is consistently called "Silas" in Acts, but the Latin Silvanus, which means "of the forest," is always used by Paul and in the First Epistle of Peter; it is likely that "Silvanus" is the Romanized version of the original "Silas," or that "Silas" is the Greek nickname for "Silvanus." It has been suggested that Silas is the Greek version of the Aramaic "Seila," a version of the Hebrew "Saul".
Amadeus (name) 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" means "Beloved of God". The Greek