Terminology Coordination Unit

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Interview with Elena Montiel-Ponsoda

Elena Montiel-Ponsoda is Associate Professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, where she belongs to the Applied Linguistics Department since 2012, and member of the “Ontology Engineering G[...]

Video-Fix: Asymmetric Intelligibility

Why some speakers can't understand speakers who understand them Consider this: You meet a person who doesn’t speak your language and you don’t speak theirs. However, your two languages are somewh[...]

I·ATE Food Term of the Week: Chocolate

Civilizations like the Mayans and Aztecs believed that cacao beans had magical attributes, which were appropriate enough to be used in rituals like birth, marriage and death. Cacao tree’s Latin na[...]

TermCoord at the Terminology Summer School 2020

The first online edition of the Terminology Summer School (TSS 2020) was a very well organised and successful event. This year, the main topic of the TSS was dedicated to terminology in the context o[...]

Video Fix: the world of Italian hand gestures

Many people in the world are fascinated by the Italian peninsula: delicious food, nice weather, unique works of art and ancient architecture. Some brave people even get to try and learn the Italian [...]

I·ATE Food Term of the Week: Comfort Food

It is summer and summer is in some ways a nostalgic season as are its postcards. I am Italian and I realize that many times when I want an ice cream, it is not just for its taste or because it is ho[...]

Video Fix: Pidgin and Creole: the Discovery and Language Contacts

The history of pidgins and creoles starts with the European age of exploration and expansion in the 15th century. During the 16th and early 19th centuries, pidgin and creole languages spread out es[...]

I•ATE Food Term of the Week: Delizia al Limone

A pastry from Campania, between lemons and sighs The arrival of the summer provides the perfect occasion to talk about a dessert that, due to its origins and freshness, reminds you of the summer mon[...]

Video-Fix: How to Order Sushi in Japanese

On June 18th we celebrated the International Sushi Day. Or, Sushi Week this whole week as we decided to do it here at TermCoord. Sushi is one of the untranslatable words (just like Zen and anime), a[...]

I·ATE Food Term of the Week: Sushi

Every year on the 18 of June we celebrate the International Sushi Day. Its purpose is to honour this delicious food, but also raise awareness about many fictional stories surrounding it. What sus[...]

TermCoord's Communication Tools | Online Workshop

For a long time now, study visitors from the University of Luxembourg to TermCoord have been participating in the everyday work of the unit and exploring different aspects of it – some of them focu[...]

Translation in the European Parliament

On the new Translation page on the European Parliaments website, you can also learn about the documents we translate, why terminology is so important for translation and much more.

University projects

Welcome to the Universities’ IATE projects page. Here you can find the outcome of IATE projects done by Universities in cooperation with TermCoord. These terminology entries will be evaluated to be imported in IATE after validation by the terminologists of the respective language. The content of the tables published on this page are under the responsibility of each University.

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Latest articles

Interview with Elena Montiel-Ponsoda

Video-Fix: Asymmetric Intelligibility

I·ATE Food Term of the Week: Chocolate

TermCoord at the Terminology Summer School 2020

Video Fix: the world of Italian hand gestures

I·ATE Food Term of the Week: Comfort Food

Video Fix: Pidgin and Creole: the Discovery and Language Contacts

I•ATE Food Term of the Week: Delizia al Limone

Video-Fix: How to Order Sushi in Japanese

I·ATE Food Term of the Week: Sushi

TermCoord's Communication Tools | Online Workshop

Translation in the European Parliament

Translation in the European Parliament

On the new Translation page on the European Parliaments website, you can also learn about the documents we translate, why terminology is so important for translation and much more.

University projects

IATE Term of the week

IATE Term of the Week: Distance Learning

IATE Term of the Week: Herd Immunity

IATE Term of the Week: Marine Litter

IATE Term of the Week: Epidemic Curve

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European Terminology Summit hosted by EAFT and TermCoord at the European Parliament