Resources

UNTERM

UNTERM is a termbase compiled over the years in response to diverse and wide-ranging demands of United Nations language staff for terminology and nomenclature.

UNTERM contains over 85,000 entries in the 6 official languages. However it is not comprehensive or complete and often does not offer clear guidance on which term should be used in which context.

FAOTERM

The FAOTERM System is a multilingual terminology database in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish, Russian and Italian.

IATE

IATE (= “Inter-Active Terminology for Europe”) is the EU inter-institutional terminology database. IATE has been used in the EU institutions and agencies since summer 2004 for the collection, dissemination and shared management of EU-specific terminology. The project partners are:

  • European Commission
  • Parliament
  • Council
  • Court of Justice
  • Court of Auditors
  • Economic & Social Committee
  • Committee of the Regions
  • European Central Bank
  • European Investment Bank
  • Translation Centre for the Bodies of the EU