Family name origins & meanings
- Swiss (Romansh) : from Latin accola ‘neighbor’, ‘inhabitant’ (from accolere ‘to live near’). In medieval Latin accola also meant ‘tenant (farmer)’, which is probably the principal sense of the name.
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