From a derivative of klino; properly, reclination, i.e. (concretely and specially), a party at a meal -- company.
see GREEK klino
1. a hut, erected to pass the night in.
2. a tent.
3. anything to recline on; a chair in which to lean back the head, reclining-chair.
4. a company reclining; a row or party of persons reclining at meal: so in plural, Luke 9:14, on which cf. Winers Grammar, 229 (214); likewise in Josephus, Antiquities 12, 2, 12; Plutarch Sert. 26.