Steve Schwartz wrote:

>German cabaret (or Kabarett in German, with the final t's sounded)
>began roughly around the turn of the century, inspired largely by
>the French model...

The latin word CAMARA ("room") became CABRET in Medieval Dutch.  Then
it migrated to low French CABARET.  In this form was internationalized.
(In Portuguese is written CABARE - obs.: the "e" is accentuated)

Edson Tadeu Ortolan
Brazil