Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - sephardi

 noun  (plural ~m)  Etymology: Late Hebrew sepharadhi, from sepharadh Spain, from Hebrew, region where Jews were once exiled (Obadiah 1:20)  Date: 1851 a member of the occidental branch of European Jews settling in Spain and Portugal and later in the Balkans, the Levant, England, the Netherlands, and the Americas; also one of their descendants — compare Ashkenazi  • ~c adjective