banknote

From bank +‎ note.

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banknote (plural banknotes)

1. A piece of currency made of paper or polymer. [from 18th c.]
2. (now historical) A promissory note issued by a bank, payable at a given time to a specific beneficiary. [from 17th c.]
   • 1728, John Gay, The Beggar's Opera, I.4:

     Was Captain Macheath here this Morning, for the Bank-notes he left with you last Week?

• (piece of paper or polymer currency): note (commonplace in the Commonwealth), bill (more common in the United States and Canada), flimsy (slang), long-tailed one (slang; high denominations)

Borrowed from Italian banconota (“banknote”), probably via another language (cf. German Banknote, Russian банкно́т (banknót), банкно́та (banknóta)).

banknote f (5th declension)

1. banknote, bill (piece of paper currency, printed by a (central) bank)

   desmit latu banknote ― a 10-lats banknote

   banknošu apmaiņa ― the exchange of banknotes

   banknošu nodrošinājums ― banknote security

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