The origin of the word is said to be old French gabinet, which means intimate room, in current French it is cabinet, which refers to a part of a house or small room such as the sewing room, the reading room or the library such as the office, which being a work area becomes or refers to the person himself, as in a ministry, government department or its government cabinet.
In certain parts of the world the words have the same or different meaning as in Colombia that cabinet refers to a roofed terrace or balcony of a house or a hacienda that served as a viewpoint, as is also said to the kitchen and the combination and the amount of the set of tables, shop windows or cabinets that make up the kitchen, which are the cabinets where food and utensils such as cooking pots are kept, this same term is also given in Venezuela, Argentina, Bolivia and Mexico. Being that cabinet, wardrobe or shelf, whether made of iron or wood, it is said because they are used to store anything such as medicines, glassware, liquors, books, food among many other things.
In the government there are a certain number of ministers in each of the departments, in charge of certain political issues, these are called the cabinet, whether they are in charge of foreign relations or of the decisions of the national press department. In medicine it is said of a room or room that is full of medical devicesor with medicines and optional books, where they make reviews, exams and consult their patients. As the room that is only used to demonstrate medical and scientific advances, it is also of artistic interest where only the samples are kept, the investigations carried out in the most relevant discoveries of the time, such as the physics cabinet or of a scientific museum, the cabinet of natural history that being in this site is a great honor and a temple of the wisdom of the passing of time, today many of these places are still in perfect condition, in itself this complements the real estate that belong to this type of room.
In old houses a room was used for important people only to be attended if you had to talk about important and reserved issues.
