An attachment to an electronic message used for security purposes. The most common use of a digital certificate is to verify that a user sending a message is who he or she claims to be, and to provide the receiver with the means to encode a reply. An individual wishing to send an encrypted message applies for a digital certificate from a Certificate Authority (CA) .
Emily /emi-ly/ [3 sylls.] as a girls' name is pronounced EM-i-ee. It is of Latin origin, and the meaning of Emily is rival; laborious; eager. Feminine of Emil, from the Latin name Aemilia, feminine form of the old Roman surname Aemilius (probably from aemulus). Literary: the form Emelye was used in the 14th century by Chaucer's The Knight's Tale , which was a translation of Emilia, the form in Chaucer's source, Boccaccio's Teseida.
Origin of the name Emily: English cognate of the Latin Aemilia, which is from Aemilius, an old Roman family name probably derived from aemulus (trying to equal or excel, rival). From A World of Baby Names by Teresa Norman. Related Names: Amelia, Amelie, Emalee, Emilee, Emilia, Emilie, Emilly, Emmalee.