IATE (InterActive Terminology for Europe) is the EU's terminology database. It has been used in the EU institutions and agencies since summer 2004 for the collection, dissemination and management of EU-specific terminology. The project was launched in 1999 with the aim of providing a web-based infrastructure for all EU terminology resources, enhancing the availability and standardisation of the information.

The project partners are:

  • European Parliament (IATE data labelled as EP),
  • Council of the European Union (IATE data labelled as Council),
  • European Commission (IATE data labelled as COM),
  • European Court of Justice (IATE data labelled as CJUE),
  • European Central Bank (IATE data labelled as ECB),
  • European Court of Auditors (IATE data labelled as ECA),
  • European Economic and Social Committee (IATE data labelled as EESC/CoR),
  • European Committee of the Regions (IATE data labelled as EESC/CoR),
  • European Investment Bank (IATE data labelled as EIB), and
  • Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union (IATE data labelled as CdT)

The project was launched in 1999 with the objective of providing a web-based infrastructure for all EU terminology resources, enhancing the availability and standardisation of the information. The following legacy databases were imported into IATE:

  • Eurodicautom (Commission),
  • TIS (Council),
  • Euterpe (EP),
  • Euroterms (Translation Centre),
  • CDCTERM (Court of Auditors)

The current version of IATE was released on 7 November 2018 following a full rebuild of the system with state-of-the-art technologies, the latest software development standards, best practices on usability and accessibility, and a new look and feel. Numerous improvements and new functionalities are now available to internal and public users, and the EU interinstitutional terminology database will continue to evolve in the coming months and years to meet the needs and wishes of EU linguists and IATE users in general.


Terms are in, and translations between these languages:

  • BG Bulgarian
  • CS Czech
  • DA Danish
  • DE German
  • EL Greek
  • EN English
  • ES Spanish
  • ET Estonian
  • FI Finnish
  • FR French
  • GA Irish
  • HR Croatian
  • HU Hungarian
  • IT Italian
  • LA Latin1
  • LT Lithuanian
  • LV Latvian
  • MT Maltese
  • MUL Multilingual2
  • NL Dutch
  • PL Polish
  • PT Portuguese
  • RO Romanian
  • SK Slovak
  • SL Slovenian
  • SV Swedish

More information: IATE - FAQ

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