Eurodicautom was launched in 1997 as a free website by the Translation
Service of the European Commission. Eurodicautom was a multilingual
terminology database of economic, scientific, technical, and legal
terms and expressions, with language pairs for the eleven official
languages of the European Union (Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish,
French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish), and
Latin, and with an average of 120,000 hits per day in 2003. In late
2003, Eurodicautom announced its integration into a larger terminology
database in partnership with other institutions of the European Union.
The new database -- called IATE (InterActive Terminology for Europe) -
would be available in more than 20 languages, because of the
enlargement of the European Union planned in 2004 towards Eastern
Europe. IATE was launched in 2007.