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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
spay/speɪ/

▶verb sterilize (a female animal) by removing the ovaries.

– origin ME: shortening of OFr. espeer ‘cut with a sword’, from espee ‘sword’, from L. spatha ‘spathe’.

'spay' also found in these Oxford entries:

alter - desex - fix - neuter

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