Which term corresponds to a couch?

• A. Diphros
• B. Lectus
• C. Kline
• D. Klismos

Answer: (C)

A couch in ancient furniture vocabularies is the long piece designed for reclining, especially at meals. The Greek term for this is kline (klinē), which specifically names the reclining couch used around a dining table. It’s the form you’d see in classical banquets, where guests lie on their left sides on cushions along three sides of a table. That precise association with reclining dining furniture makes it the best match here. Lectus is Latin and generally points to a bed or a Roman reclining couch with a different cultural context, klismos refers to a chair with a curved back and slender legs, and diphros denotes another, different seating form. So the term that corresponds to a couch is kline.