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Possibly derived from 飲み(nomi), the nominalized連用形(ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 飲む(nomu, “to drink”), from the way that fleas drink the host's blood.
As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as ノミ.
