Kindins is a Gothic word (attested only in the Gothic Bible, translating Greek ἡγεμών) that is identified by some scholars as the vernacular title for what may have been a political or judicial position among the 4th century Goths, identified in Greek and Latin sources as a "judge" (iudex, δικαστής). Patrick J. Geary described the position as a "super-royal judge". Wolfram considered Ariaric likely to have been the first reliably and independently recorded Thervingian kindins.