accŏla, ae, c. [accolo], a dweller by or near a place, a neighbor (incola, one who dwells in a place): optati cives, populares, incolae, accolae, advenae, Plaut. Aul. 3, 1, 1: pastor accola ejus loci, Liv. 1, 7, 5; 37, 53; Tac. A. 2, 68; Verg. A. 7, 729 al.: accolae Cereris, i. e. dwellers at her temple, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 50, § 111.
In Tacitus, adj., of the tributary streams of the Tiber: Tiberim accolis fluviis orbatum, the neighboring rivers, A. 1, 79. (The Vulg. uses this word in the sense of incola: accola in terra, Psa. 104, 23; Act. 7, 6: terrae, Lev. 18, 27.)