We are interested in the behaviour of Frobenius roots when the base field is fixed and the genus of the curve or the dimension of the abelian variety tends to infinity. I shall explain how to put the question and what are the answers. This happens to be a question in algebraic number theory and harmonic analysis. For curves (and for number fields) these are my old results with Serge Vladuts, for abelian varieties those of J.-P. Serre (séminaire Bourbaki, 2018) and my work in progress with Nicolas Nadirashvili.