diff --git a/man3/aio_error.3 b/man3/aio_error.3
index 03b61a722..121e7ec31 100644
--- a/man3/aio_error.3
+++ b/man3/aio_error.3
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ if the request was canceled.
 .IP *
 0, if the request completed successfully.
 .IP *
-A positive error, if the asynchronous I/O operation failed.
+A positive error number, if the asynchronous I/O operation failed.
 This is the same value that would have been stored in the
 .I errno
 variable in the case of a synchronous