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Terminology Resources

  • AGROVOC is a terminology database hosted by The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and contains over 36,000 concepts available in 36 languages. 
  • ECHA-term is hosted by the European Chemicals Agency and contains over 1,200 entries in all official EU languages.
  • EcoLexicon: Multilingual terminology database for environmental terms in English, Spanish, German, French, Russian, and Greek.
  • EUROTERMBANK "focuses on harmonisation and consolidation of terminology work in new EU member states, transferring experience from other European Union terminology networks and accumulating competencies and efforts of the accessed countries." The project will result in a centralized online terminology bank for languages of new EU member countries interlinked to other terminology banks and resources." EuroTermBank focuses on Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland, but include other EU countries and languages as well

  • EUROVOC: multilingual thesaurus provided by the European Union, representing official European Union language.
  • FAO Term Portal: Multilingual terminology database of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Arabic, English, Spanish, French, Russian and Chinese, including some Italian and also Scientific Names for plants and aquatic species.

  • Food and Agricultural Organization Term Portal: access to the UN-FAO FAOTERM database (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish, Russian, Italian) as well as other FAO and non-FAO language resources (other terminology resources, dictionaries, etc.).

  • GEMETGeneral Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus,  is a reference vocabulary of the European Environmental Agency (EEA) and is available in 32 languages. 

  • LinguaFinMultilingual terminology database for financial terminology.

  • TERMIUM: Terminology database of the Canadian government. One of the largest terminology and linguistic data banks in the world, gives you access to millions of terms in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. You can find terms, abbreviations, definitions and usage examples in a wide range of specialized fields.

  • TermSciencesMultidisciplinary terminology search portal in English, French, Spanish and German.

  • UNITERM: multilingual termino logy database with provides United Nations nomenclature, technical or specialized terms and common phrases in the six official UN languages.

  • WTOTERM: Terminology database of the World Trade Organization, in English, Spanish, and French.

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